Today there remain of the city only ruins and the ancient cathedral.
The ancient cathedral was left to decay in the 18th century, never to be rebuilt.
It looked like the inside of an ancient cathedral into which somebody had placed a long oak table and chairs.
Maybe ancient cathedrals were just imitations of high places too.
The effect was one of haunting solemnity, as in some ancient cathedral.
It was primitive, all right, but as beautiful as a great ancient cathedral.
In 1805 it was visited by a severe earthquake, which ruined the ancient cathedral.
It was like the interior of an ancient Gothic cathedral, beautiful and dignified.
It was resolved to restore the ancient cathedral of Nidaros.
Such stones remind us of how ancient cathedrals and pyramids were built.
