Outside area

Vikingaheimar has a big lot all around it, from the building on the point all the way to Stekkjakot. And we need to figure out what to do with it. I have met with various people on this issue over the last few years, and everyone sort of has their own ideas. A petting zoo. A Viking village. A 3 dimensional representation of Asatru. Picnic grounds. I of course have my own take on it, to split it up into various lands, to show the breadth and diversity of people in the Viking Age. But there is this inlet on the western side of the lot that has a change in water level between low tide and high tide that leaves several meters of seaweed-covered rocks to deal with, and which represents an intellectual challenge in terms of mapping the grounds in whatever idealized way one might want to.

So this first summer of operation, we have just let it lie fallow. I imagine we'll turn our attention to it more in earnest in the fall, and hopefully have some plan in place soon. Whether or not it will all be realized by next summer, well, that is another story. But I think we'll at least have some beginnings.  

And that will be really nice. Especially if the weather next summer is as nice as it has been this summer! People want to be outside, no matter how fascinating the exhibition inside is.