Etikett: Lofoten

  • The chieftains warrior division at Åse

    The chieftains warrior division at Åse

    Texten finns på svenska längre ner. Last summer, I traveled to my neighboring country, Norway. I generally find it more difficult to locate ancient monuments in Norway than at home in Sweden, likely due to the algorithms of various search engines favoring the language one most commonly uses, which in my case is Swedish. This…

  • Lofotr Viking Museum

    Lofotr Viking Museum

    At Lofoten in northern Norway lies the farm of Borg. In 1981 the farmer there was ploughing his fields discovered the remains of a settlement. Archeologists were called in from the University of Tromsø. They soon realized that this was no site of only local interest. Between 1986-89 a Nordic research group was formed that…