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  • Full-scale Viking ship replica project to start soon in Denmark

    07/22/2022 10:42:04 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 42 replies
    Norway Today (in this case, Norway July 17th...) ^ | July 17, 2022 | staff [Source: The Viking Herald]
    Boat builders of the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum will soon start a new experimental archeological project – the construction of a full-scale replica of the Viking ship Skuldelev 5.The original Skuldelev 5 ship can be seen in the museum’s Viking Ship Hall. The process of constructing the replica will last between four and five years, The Viking Herald reports...The ship was built in Denmark around ca. 1030 AD. It is 17.3 meters long and 2.5 meters wide – a long and narrow ship equipped with 26 oars and a mainsail, built for fast and efficient transport of warriors in times...
  • Exercising my right to move to Norway (Boston Globe Columnist Leaves the USA Under Trump)

    01/22/2018 1:57:43 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 124 replies
    Boston Globe ^ | 01/22/2018 | Alex Beam
    UNLIKE YOU, I have options. A number of years ago I married an intelligent, blonde woman who spoke many languages, including one that sounded like the soundtrack from “Thor: Ragnarok.” It was gobbledygook to me, but she turned out to be Norwegian — imagine my luck! That’s right. Not only do we have the right to resettle in Donald Trump’s favorite white-bread country — Norway makes New Hampshire look like the Model UN — but Norway is also anxious to have us. We have been perusing a website called “New Beginnings in Ringerike,” which bills itself as a “recovery” program...