Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad

This statue is placed outside of the Viking Ship Museum, which you can see in the second picture in yesterday's post.

Helge Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. His wife Anne Stine was an archaeologist. In 1961 they found remnants of a Viking settlement on Newfoundland and were the first to prove that Islandic/Norwegian vikings had found a way across the Atlantic ocean to North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

The sign says: "They discovered the America of the vikings."

Read more on Wikipedia.

Round and round and round...

This photo is really cool, I think. And I can say that, because it's not mine. This is my dear guest blogger Stormel's photo. I'm really happy she can help me with photos because I can't easily get around as much.

This is a roundabout situated near the railway station in Oslo. The bridges above the roundabout can take you from the railway station to the shopping mall "Oslo City". Close by is also the "Oslo Spektrum Arena" where they have concerts, shows and trade fairs. This is also the arena for such events as the Nobel Concert, Nordic Music Awards, the Spellemannsprisen (the Norwegian "Grammy"), and a variety of top international artists. Hopefully, I can show you a photo of Oslo Spektrum later.