title: Minnehallen
text: # Minnehallen
  
  58°59′29″N 10°02′13″E﻿ / ﻿58.99139°N 10.03694°E﻿ / 58.99139; 10.03694 Minnehallen or Hall of Remembrance is a national memorial located outside Stavern in Larvik, Vestfold, Norway.
  
  The memorial was commissioned by the Norwegian Parliament after World War I to commemorate the fallen Norwegian sailors of the war. It was unveiled by King Haakon VII and was later converted to the national monument commemorating fallen sailors of both World War I and World War II. The monument itself is a pyramid of locally quarried rock and is designed by two architects from Oslo, Andreas Hesselberg Bjercke (1883–1967) and Georg Christen Eliassen (1880–1964).
  
  Nic Schiøll has made a relief describing the lives and fate of the sailors as well as a decoration in the crypt. Copper tablets display the names of 1,892 sailors who died during World War I and 3,456 names of sailors who died in World War II. In addition, three protocols contain the names of 5,667 sailors. The interior of the hall is visited by some 20,000 people every year.
  
  Herman Wildenvey wrote Minnehallen, a poem displayed on the rock altar in the hall. The first and last verse read as follows:
  
      Landets egne, mand og kvinne
      Konge, folk og raad,
      reiste dette æresminde
      over sjømænds daad.
      Her hvor hav og land som brødre
      deler storm og sol
      Samles søsken, fædre, mødre,
      om et stort symbol
      The country's own, man and woman
      King, people, and council
      raised this remembrance of honor
      over the deed of the sailor.
      Here where sea and land as brothers
      share storm and sun
      Bring together siblings, fathers, mothers
      around a great symbol.
      Hvil i fred, hver fredens kriger
      i din våte grav.
      Taus du sank, mindet stiger
      her som sol av hav.
      Atter blir mot dagen hævet
      alt som havet tok.
      Og vi vet dit navn er skrevet
      i en evig bok.
      Rest in peace, each warrior for peace
      in your watery grave
      Silently you sank, the memory ascends
      here like the sun of the sea.
      Everything which the sea took
      is increased by the day.
      And we know your name is written
      in an eternal book.
  