Viking Museums in Denmark

[Billhook]

Very impressed with both the National Museum in Copenhagen and the Viking Museum at Trelleborg

I thought that displaying artifacts on slabs gave much more life to the objects . Animate wood as opposed to inanimate glass and plastic

[Billhook]

They also had some wood workshops with what looked like a vice to clamp wood while you work it using your feet, and another device that I could not quite work out but which was probably a form of lathe

Edited September 2, 2019 by Billhook
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[kav]

7 hours ago, Billhook said:

They also had some wood workshops with what looked like a vice to clamp wood while you work it using your feet, and another device that I could not quite work out but which was probably a form of lathe

Yeah, shavehorse(s), clamp the wood with foot while shaping with a drawknife, good old technology still being used today