The Dagbladet articles make interesting reading, but I would like to contend one point. Arne Emil Christansen states that the Viking ships and stave churches are Norways most important cultural relics.....Important, yes, but the most important, maybe not.
Surely evidence of 5000+ years of human interaction with the landscape is Norways most important cultural relic.....and the one most in danger in this modern age. Artefacts (as Christiansen goes on to explain) can be a lot of scraps of timber held together by modern technology... but in my humble opinion, 'cultural landscape' once lost is lost for ever. All the more baffling that so little of Norwegian archaeology is concerned with recording and interpreting landscape as opposed to the microcosm of sites, structures and artefacts. But maybe that is a topic for a separate discussion.....
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