Last night I watched the PBS documentary, Wild Nature of the Vikings. A colleague from Finland sent it to me. I realized while watching it that my Scandinavian summer more or less follows the migration of the Vikings, skipping Faroe and Shetland Islands and also Vinland/Newfoundland.
Related: check out the Isle of Lewis chess piece replicas. I have a book on order for tomorrow to learn more about them. Who can resist those faces? :)
Made from walrus ivory and sperm whale tooth, 12-13th century
My Scandinavian Summer 