I have just joined The Fellowship of the Viking Dragon. This is not a heathen religious group, but a group of supporters of an ongoing project to build the largest replica Viking ship ever constructed. I’ve offered them my services as a writer and translator. If you want to keep up to date on the project, or help in some way, information is here. Look around. There’s a lot of interesting photos of the process.

The ship’s being constructed in Haugesund, which is essentially the ancestral home town of the Walkers, who came from Karmøy just across the sound. So I’m very keen on this project, aside from its essential coolosity.

Somebody needs to do a good, epic Viking movie one of these days, featuring a big sea battle. There’s a growing fleet of very fine replica Viking ships in the world, just aching for a shot at stardom.

I’ve been doing a lot of Norwegian blogging lately, haven’t I?



For a change of pace, I’ll add something about the weather. Yesterday was the day I relaxed at last. I tense up every year around the beginning of November, and I don’t ease again until spring is firmly in place. Yesterday I felt that had happened. I saw one tiny snow pile in the shade of a tree while driving to work this morning, but I’m betting it’s gone as of this hour. Had a lovely walk by the lake tonight.

Tomorrow’s only supposed to get up to fifty, but I stand by my decree–spring is here.