There is a Samí culture museum just out of town that I visited last week. It's called Jamtli. Besides the reindeer, there we some really awesome Viking artifacts excavated from Frösön; remnants from the good old days. Frösön (Frös--"Freyr," Norse god of the phallus & fertility, also nomenclatural patron to our fifth weekday; "ön" island) is the island across Storsjön from Östersund. Ten centuries ago it was a Viking settlement; today there's an airport with daily flights to Coppenhagen & Oslo.
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| Arabian silver-dollars. Some Vikings went West, others went Middle-east... |
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| A thousand-year-old tapestry; contemporary with the Norman Invasion. |
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| Yesterday I chanced upon a Viking rune-stone so I took a picture. Östersund lit by the 3 o'clock sunset in the background. |
That's all I have. Sorry if the posts are comparatively meagre. I've had a lot to read & write for school. It's like this: as more prolific
på svenska, then less so in The Rumpus Room. Inverse relationships are a tragic fact of life, I suppose; a stamp of the God of Justice, who demmandeth sacrifice.
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