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Tuesday Aug 6, 2019 #
5 PM
Cycle Touring 55:08 [3] 13.51 km (14.7 kph) +71m
shoes: Dodgy Rental Bikes
Steady climb north up along the E10 about half the trip had a bike road and half on the highway. Mild northerly breeze just enough to make us work a bit harder and earn the coffee before went into the Viking museum.
9 PM
Cycle Touring 39:00 [3] 13.22 km (20.3 kph) +49m
shoes: Dodgy Rental Bikes
Easy ride back to Leknes. It seemed to be mostly downhill but GPS has more up and down, but the gentle northerly was still there and it blew us back to town in 39 minutes yet the out was 55 into the breeze with a bit of net gain in altitude but only about 30m.
Viking museum was interesting with a replica chiefs house built alongside an archeological dig site of Olaf's house. He was an important local viking chief but when a bigger and badder chief from the south muscled in on his territory he decided to pack up is house and people and headed for Iceland. The house he built in Iceland is apparently still there and with some of the old timber salvaged from the Loftor house. (there are no trees in Iceland hence the need to literally move house)
A good collection of artifacts from the dig, with fragments of glass and pottery but some well preserved beads, pieces of gold and other items. They have been traced from across Europe from Turkey to England.
There is also a viking ship which you can take a ride on, but it looked a bit odd with all the people lined up in bright red life jackets about to board a viking sailing ship!
Viking museum was interesting with a replica chiefs house built alongside an archeological dig site of Olaf's house. He was an important local viking chief but when a bigger and badder chief from the south muscled in on his territory he decided to pack up is house and people and headed for Iceland. The house he built in Iceland is apparently still there and with some of the old timber salvaged from the Loftor house. (there are no trees in Iceland hence the need to literally move house)
A good collection of artifacts from the dig, with fragments of glass and pottery but some well preserved beads, pieces of gold and other items. They have been traced from across Europe from Turkey to England.
There is also a viking ship which you can take a ride on, but it looked a bit odd with all the people lined up in bright red life jackets about to board a viking sailing ship!