Nidaros
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant.
From Time Magazine Archive
When King Harald was ready to leave Nidaros he went to King Olaf's shrine, unlocked it, clipped his hair and nails, and locked the shrine again, and threw the keys into the Nid.
From Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
So King Olaf gave him his word thereon, and made over to him lands in the east at Konungahella, and at Oslo, at Tunsberg, at Borg, at Bergen, and in the north at Nidaros.
From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Ethel Harriet Hearn
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