There was an event in Edinburgh by the company Vil is working for - and Ása decided to join on the trip to Scotland. After half a week of hiking in the Highlands, he went into the hotel's conference rooms for one and a half day while she went to the permanent exhibition "Early people" by the National Museum of Scotland. Those pictures relevant for the Viking Age are now collected into a gallery and put online. Enjoy!
Interlude: National Museum of Scotland
Before we continue with the article on our first time at the Ribe Vikingecenter, we pause for a small interlude with pictures from the National Museum of Scotland...
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