[SCA-AS] The Mastermyr Project
mmagnusol
mmagnusol at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 28 20:50:26 CDT 2007
http://www.netlabs.net/~osan/Mastermyr/
Lots of images of the articles.
I was the one who got Norm Larson to reprint 2000 copies
of the book. He got permission to reprint shortly before
Greta Arwidsson died. The initial printing was only 800 and
that was a hardback. The reprint is a paperback. It took me
four years to find an original. I got the reprint first.
The Mastermyr chest is the greatest assemblage of late Viking
Age tools and cookware. It probably sank into a bog when a
boat overturned. With time the peat bog became a meadow
that was being plowed when the tools were discovered.
It is a literal time capsule of locks and keys, the chest, metal
and wood working tools, a folding hanging griddle and cauldron.
You can probably still buy one for yourself.
Magnus
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