Burning Norwegian Villages

[Syt]

Have they started looking for longships full of Irish monks yet?

[Brazen]

Did it start with ceremonially torching a longboat?

[KRonn]

I can imagine this is what it was like in earlier times, that fires were a more frequent problem before the advent of central heating and gas/electric stoves.

[The Minsky Moment]

Finally karma strikes.

In retrospect, I feel bad about making light of these misfortunes so flippantly.  In my defense I was reading the chapter in Peter Heather's latest book that covers the Vikings so it leaped to mind.

[viper37]

First churches, now villages. 

Some new Metal cult?

Most likely, open fire places like Viking said.  If they have been used only sporadically and not cleaned before intensive use, it is totally possible for problems to arise.

[Viking]

Finally karma strikes.

In retrospect, I feel bad about making light of these misfortunes so flippantly.  In my defense I was reading the chapter in Peter Heather's latest book that covers the Vikings so it leaped to mind.

Nobody died, so it's still funny. Ok, not funny, merely not in bad taste.

[Viking]

In addtion to fire, now add flooding. A land-slide in Namdal fell into the fjord causing a 4-5 meter high tsunami in that fjord. Forces of nature are really having a go....