Which is probably the reason it was a shipwreck.
Hmmmm... well I guess that didn't work, Olaf, maybe we should try nails...
I guess it was just unknown in Scandinavia.
Exactly.
and they have it lying out there in the snow? Where is the dig site? I can’t figure out this photo.
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”
~ Rime of the Ancient Mariner
and when the boards shrink, gee, I guess the ropeth, she leteth goeth...