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Stiklestad Church

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As anticipated, today was a decompression day for me, adjusting to civilian life again, as it were.

I read. I paid my bills (a usual Thursday task), took out the garbage. Went to the grocery store. Forgot my shopping list. Bought from memory. Came home and discovered — to my considerable shock — that I had bought everything I need. This has never happened before, in my whole long life.

The Norwegian video above, with English subtitles, offers a little tour of the church at Stiklestad in Norway. The Battle of Stiklestad (spoiler alert) forms the final big climax for my upcoming novel, The Baldur Game.

The Baldur Game is coming soon. I refuse to give up hope for that.

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Delayed Olaf greetings

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I should have noted the Feast of Saint Olaf (Olav) of Norway yesterday. Or even better, the day before, so you’d be prepared to attend mass, as I’m sure you would have wished. Yesterday was Olaf’s feast day in the church calendar, July 29. However (as I mentioned in a book review a while back) I’ve been won over to the revisionist figure of August 31 for the actual date of Olaf’s death. So today will do.

Besides, I’m not all that fond of Olaf. Or of Olav, either.

The short video above invites you to visit the site of the battle, Stiklestad, near Trondheim (I had ancestors from nearby). However, just now you can’t go to Norway unless you’re willing to submit to a couple weeks’ quarantine. So I don’t really recommend it. The video suffers from the presence of short-haired Vikings, a current plague in the reenactment world. Also, I don’t think the scene of the battle was wooded. (You can’t actually stand where the battle occurred anymore, due to slippage of terrain a long time ago.) But the production values aren’t bad.

Tomorrow is my birthday (won’t tell you which one). And Sunday is a family reunion.

I’ll post on Monday, if I survive and avoid arrest.