Jørundgård chapel

Jørundgård is located in a characteristic landscape where tall and steep mountains outlines the wide and flat fields in the bottom of the valley. This area was earlier called Selsmyrene (The Sel Bogs), but after the bogs dried out in the 1920s, this has become the cornfields of Gudbrandsdalen and is now called Selsvollene (The Sel Fields). Here the river Lågen runs quietly through the fields.

The medieval farm at Jørundsgård was made as a film set for the movie about Kristin Lavransdatter. The film from 1995 was based on the book Kransen from 1920, the first book in the trilogy about Kristin Lavransdatter. It was this trilogy that earned Sigrid Undset the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1928.

They build a stave church to be used in the filming of the movie, but it was intentionally burned down as a part of the story line in the movie.

A few years later, a new small stave church was built here. It was opened in 1999. The church was decorated by the wood cutter Einar Trettøy. Inside the church one can see 9 reliefs that tells the story of Olavs life and life work until the battle at Stiklestad.