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Subject: Re: Bornholm Author: Bent [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 14:26:00 11/18/01 Sun Author Host/IP: px1so.cg.shawcable.net/24.71.223.140 In reply to: Paul B. Vinland 's message, "Re: Bornholm" on 13:54:27 11/18/01 Sun Hi Paul: I should tell you I lived on Bornholm during the Second World war. I was just a boy then, and I spent many hours playing with my brothers among the ruins of Hammershus. We fought with wooden swords made from fishcrates. You're certainly right about the climate. I's more Mediterranean than Nordic, that for sure. We had fig trees growing in our orchard in Allinge, grapes, cherries and so on.It's quite amazing, considering the island is at about +52 lat. You're right about the megaliths, btw, I should have said, monoliths. There are several of these on the east coast of the island, granite. There are also many rune stones there, dating back a thousand years or so. My grandfather was a forest manager on the island, and played an important part in the re-foresteration of Bornholm in the early part of the 20th century. (Just a plug for den gammle) Again, I wish you good luck with your site and I hope to visit you regularily. I'm especially interested in Thor Hyderdahl's work around the Caspian Sea. Cheers Bent >I've been at Bornholm, in 1986 and in 1987. A very >beautiful island, indeed! The best preserved Viking >fortress in the Nordic countries, build sometime in >the 1100s, named Hammershus, placed on the northern >tip of the island, is there! > >Another thing special with that island is that the >churches were build differently from all other kinds >of churches in Scandinavia. The Bornholm churches are >of a circular fashion. No corners at all! There are 7 >(?) rundkirker - round churches - on Bornholm. >Churches were used to protect, and these churches had >loopholes through the entire building. Very >interesting! > >But I can't remember seeing any megalithic structures >there, even though I didn't see the entire island. >Only bits and parts of it. > >The island has almost a mediterranean climate for >being on such a northern latitude, positioned as it is >in the Baltic Sea. Grapes grows there, along with >other more subtropical plants. No wonder the Vikings >fortyfied the island! > >:o) Paul [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]