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A Canadian expatriate living and exploring first France now Germany, then BACK to FRANCE (!!!) with her family; former fashion designer, turned unexpected UNLIKELY NOMAD, raising two children, writing, photographing, painting, playing piano (who knew!!) and blogging - and now... full time student at ART SCHOOL!! (I MUST be crazy!!)

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Ship Stones

A viking burial site, we saw it as we drove by and had to stop, it looked so mysterious off in the distance. Upon closer examination, we found a series of rolling hummocks, not unlike Moguls.
We strolled around soaking up the air of the place.

The next day we went to a viking grave, the graves set up in a curious pattern like a ship, they call them Ship Stones...


The granite slabs were immense and we marvelled at their size and shape.
and wondered how many men it would have taken to position them like that...and how many were buried there...


3 comments:

Beth said...

Have just been reading your most recent posts (I'm way behind).
Gorgeous pictures and fascinating commentary.
Thanks for the education - it's better than the one I received in public school about the Vikings.

Angel said...

great, great pictures....and to "nomads" and just tour the countryside like that.....ahhhhhh

k said...

you are a great photographer!

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