Old Aker Church

Oslo · Norwegen · Kyrka · Grusel 2/5

Beneath Oslo's oldest building, a fire-breathing dragon broods over a silver hoard — the mine openings are still called the Dragon Holes.

Twelfth-century Old Aker Church is Oslo's oldest standing building, raised on a pagan burial ground atop Akersberget — site of what may be Norway's oldest mine. A Latin text from 1170 describes rich silver deposits near Oslo, and those shafts bred the legend: the church is said to rest on four pillars of solid gold, while deep below a sulphur-breathing dragon guards an immense treasure beside an underground pool where gilded ducks swim. The mine openings in the rock are still called "Dragehullene" — the Dragon Holes. The legend holds a grain of truth: sulphurous fumes rising from the forgotten medieval shafts became, over time, the dragon's breath. Around the church lies one of the city's oldest churchyards, resting on graves older still.

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Old Aker Church liegt in Oslo, Norwegen.