(email April 19, 2009 to Jack and Grete Waitz)
Heisan,
Random thoughts about the
Birkebeiner: I have wondered what the "real" traditional route
would have been when they transported Haakon to Trondelag. Based on
my scant knowledge of Norwegian history I gathered that they were
escaping from an area near the present Swedish border and heading to the
Birkebeinar strong hold in Trondelag. In any case the downhill from
Sjusjoen to Lillehammer is no joke (ikke til aa spoeke med). I skied it
once and that was enough. It was nice at the top and got more icy
as I neared Lillehammer, until finally I was skiing over blaabaer
lyngen. Interesting trip, cold and clear at Sjusjoen and raining in
Lillehammer. Universal Klister worked very good on skara, ice, korn snow,
slush and moose poop.
One more random thought of no
consequence: If the Viking Berzerkers were actually using flue sopp in
their pre-combat soup brew, should they not be disqualified from
Viking history since they used performance enhancing drugs? At least
anything they won (stole) should be returned and slaves and concubines
should be immediately conficasted. Seems logical since the French
are still agonizing over a bottle of 10 year old Lance Armstrong pee for the
sake of correctness and fair play. On second thought maybe
Fluesopp is not on the WADA list of banned substances, so then, I guess, it
would be okay.
The tulips started blooming here
about two weeks and the Biltmore Estate had a beautiful display at the
Winery. You guys have got to come visit us sometime and see
the Estate.
Be good and enjoy the
spring.
Bart
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