{"id":611,"date":"2006-02-10T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2006-02-10T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T15:53:00","slug":"611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Beer and Vinland<\/strong><\/p>\n

I sat down last night with a plate of bread, King Oscar<\/a> sardines and Rosenborg<\/a> cheese, a couple of bottles of Carlsberg<\/a> beer (Support Denmark!<\/a>), and a copy of the Smithsonian’s illustrated anthology Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s all for inspiration: I am working up to a series of posts on archaeology and ethnicity. But events of the last week threw me off course (more about that later, maybe), and so I am offering this post chiefly as a placeholder and to spur myself to start writing.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, if I kept up that hearty diet, I would be rotund. Lacking a longship to row in Northern mists, I had better go outside and shovel snow.<\/p>\n

Tags: Norse<\/a>, Vikings<\/a>, Support Denmark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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