Sunday, July 13, 2014

Yorvik

Sunday morning began with a visit to the Yorvik Viking Museum.  Unfortunately I lost the photos I took there.  It was indeed fascinating, beginning with a clear Plexiglas floor over a real on-site archaeological dig of Viking foundations.  The Viking conquered Yorvik, gradually morphing to York, in 866, four years before other Vikings settle Iceland (they didn't have to conquer anyone there), and maintained control of the city for about two hundred years.

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