Today we went to the Land of Legends in Lerje just outside of Roskilde where I rode the Viking boat before. It is an open air museum of the Viking/stone age times sort of along the lines of Old Sturbridge Village at home. The park is actually very big and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of rules about where you can actually go, including where most of the animals are. When we got there the lady at the desk told us that they were just starting the feeding time for the wild boars. We decided to get over there and see that. Unfortunately the feed company hadn’t actually brought the pig feed but the woman that tends them was giving them a little bit of corn to tide them over. She was very nice and answered a lot of questions about them and the other animals in the park. They apparently have one male boar and 5 female boars plus all the young they make each year. The male boar is white because he was scared during transport. He isn’t supposed to be white but since he isn’t very aggressive and makes things easier on them they decided to keep him anyway. They kill all of the young each year. Some die on their own of course. The boars eat them whether they died naturally or after they were killed. They eat everything right through all of the bone. Bricktop wasn’t lying. I am sure the PETA people would love it I am sure. Among the other animals they had the usual ducks and geese and they had some sheep, a lot of sheep actually, and some castrated bulls. None of these were penned off so you could technically walk right up to anything. The bad part of this was dodging all the land-mines on the ground.
They had several reconstruction buildings for various tasks as well as homes from the periods. They had exhibits to show how most of the stuff was done such as building homes or ovens or dug out canoes. The really interesting thing was that they had exhibits where you could chop the wood using axes or whittle other things with knives. There were a lot of children in this park and they were all allowed to use the axes and the knives. I found that particularly interesting we saw several very young children chopping wood with sharpened axes. I actually got nailed by the chips of wood when one of them was doing it. I am fairly certain we wouldn’t see this in America because the park would be afraid of being sued. I actually really liked it a lot.
The really only had a snack bar here so we just got something small to carry us through the day. Since the place was big we walked around a fair amount and the weather stayed pleasant and sunny throughout. The drive was less than an hour each way though of course we did see an accident on our way out in an intersection with a traffic light. We managed to squeeze past it before the official vehicles arrived, barely. Then we got stuck behind a bicycle race for probably about 7 kilometers which was really unpleasant. Fortunately, on the way out we didn’t encounter any such problems.
We returned to the room and relaxed for a bit before heading into Copenhagen for dinner. We had been expecting to meet his fried Ditte for drinks but she canceled on us because she wasn’t feeling well. We ate at Bombay. I had the chicken curry (chef’s special) and George had the Butter Lamb. We ordered extra spicy and they did actually put a reasonable amount of spice in. Both were decent and very filling when accompanied by some nan and some rice.
After dinner we walked out to the theater on the waterfront and had a couple drinks as it got dark. From there we walked around town a while then returned to the train station and headed back in to the apartment.
Sorry for the delay on this post. Connectivity issues. The pictures should be up later.
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