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A mostly wet Wednesday in Oslo

It has been raining on and off all day and Melissa and I keep getting lost as we walk through the streets of Oslo.

Drivers here stop for pedestrians. It’s required by law, if not exactly in the blood of its people.

Marauding Vikings were truly barbaric and known to plunder their own people just as much as any foreign land. Vikings murdered slaves and prisoners at will and historians say that they did not even regard non-vikings as humans. Every male was also expected to prove themselves on the battlefield and so entire wars were started just so leaders could demonstrate their worth . . . . A new study of a Viking burial area near the Lofoten islands has concluded that slaves were decapitated and buried along with their masters, either as a human sacrifice or simply to serve them in the afterlife.