DEN OEVER, The Netherlands (Reuters) - A Viking ship made from ice-cream sticks set sail for England from the Netherlands on Tuesday.
The 15-metre (50-foot) long ship, named after the Norse god Thor, is made from 15 million recycled ice-cream sticks glued together by U.S.-born stuntman Robert McDonald, his son and more than 5,000 children.
Icelandic-Swedish Viking film Embla (2007), directed by Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, will have its US debut at a student conference hosted by the German and Scandinavian studies division at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) on February 15.
Embla is the director’s cut of Gunnlaugsson’s 1991 The White Viking, the last film of his “Raven Triology,” starring young Swedish actress Marie Bonnevie as Embla. The film features the struggle between followers of the Norse Viking religion and Christianity.
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Joanne Harris’ “Runemarks” follows a young girl’s adventures among Scandinavian gods and goblins; in case you’re wondering, there’s still plenty of myth to go around in the young adult market.