pinlighter
08-18-2005, 07:54 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4145034.stm
A ruined church on the banks of a fjord marks the remains of a Viking farming civilisation.
The sun casts shadows through the arched window to the site of the altar, last used in the 1400s before the area was abandoned when it became too cold to support habitation.
Today, the farmers are back.
Sheep once again graze the surrounding hillside and shiny new tractors work the fields near the southern coast.
A ruined church on the banks of a fjord marks the remains of a Viking farming civilisation.
The sun casts shadows through the arched window to the site of the altar, last used in the 1400s before the area was abandoned when it became too cold to support habitation.
Today, the farmers are back.
Sheep once again graze the surrounding hillside and shiny new tractors work the fields near the southern coast.