This is my contemporary home, at Hyllestad in Western Norway. From just this place thousands of millstones were exported to Europe in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. A spring tide has left the modern quay unrecognisable… Thanks to the Norwegian Millstone Centre and the Foundation for the Museums in Sogn og Fjordane County, where I work part-time as associate professor. Photo from our living room (!) by Per Storemyr
This is my contemporary home, at Hyllestad in Western Norway. From just this place thousands of millstones were exported to Europe in the Viking Age and the Middle Ages. A spring tide has left the modern quay unrecognisable… Thanks to the Norwegian Millstone Centre and the Foundation for the Museums in Sogn og Fjordane County, where I work part-time as associate professor. Photo from our living room (!) by Per Storemyr
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