“Gunter, glieben, glauten, globen…”
Ocean City, Maryland—desolate in January, and surely a place of respite from medievalism in all its myriad forms.
No way! A hammer-wielding madman! Whither doth he beckon?
Great Odin’s opthamologist!
It’s as if I’ve wandered into sixth-century Norway.
Unlike this coward, I am undeterred, for I behold…
…a runestone! A long-neglected remnant of our distant Viking past!
(Plus the papier-mache skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.)
My rune-lore is feeble, but I believe this stone is trying to speak to me. Its approximate message appears to be “anthskloanuijaggnksinsukjtf.”
Meanwhile, the runic message carved into the beam on this this miraculously preserved Viking outhouse warns me, “riflthzwarir.”
Great enchantments surely haunt this place.
No matter. I’ll leave trite riddles to less ambitious colleagues. They’ll all go berserk when I publish this photo, which reveals the real reason Erik the Red journeyed westward.
Endowed professorship at Oxford, here I come!
Saturday, January 26, 2008, at 11:06 pm
It’s as if you’ve stepped into the past.
Sunday, January 27, 2008, at 12:13 am
Jeff,
That was good storyboarding. Time to make the donuts!
Linda
Sunday, January 27, 2008, at 1:31 am
Hysterical! The Viking’s Dunkin Donuts overlook was the bomb.
Sunday, January 27, 2008, at 2:23 pm
That last image is my new desktop for sure!
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 9:13 am
Will it surprise you to let you know that my son and I visit Viking Golf every fall during our annual family long weekend on the Eastern Shore? And that there is an EVEN BETTER golf place just south on the highway, Tomb of the Dragons?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 3:02 pm
About that dragon temple: funny you should mention it…