ITEM: A Viking boat in steel.
NOTES: “Norge” equals Norway in Norwegian.
Norway and Vikings ….what else? This should have been a Viking boat in wood but it’s a nice little steel trinket that could double up as a small paperweight.
It won’t float, that’s for sure.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: steel (pewter tin I think)
MADE IN: Norway
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 7.5cm long x 6.5cm high
There’s only one connection I have to Norway, I have a friend, who married a girl from there. She was/is beautiful and he was very happy. He went to Norway to meet her family and he said the country was amazing. Was Descent Into The Maelstrom set there? Anyway, on his return he came back to Sydney, and he was in a curious state, I wouldn’t call it bewilderment but it was something, he wasn’t right. He said to me “You know my wife I love her I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world. But when I went over to Norway I realised she was just average”
A disturbing story, a harsh reflection on love, life and consumerism.