National Museum

Today I went to the National Museum of Denmark. But first, I met my uncle and cousin, and went to my uncle’s girlfriends, office. She works for the postal service as a promotional worker. This was cool, because we kind of got a private tour of the highest post office in Denmark. The woodwork on one of the staircases is incredibly beautiful. Otherwise, it was just cubicles... We then went to the museum. We had pre-ordered a tour of the Viking exhibit. We had time before the tour to see some of the normal museum. Here there are some of the national symbols. In the old days, before Christianity came to Denmark (officially) people sacrificed objects of wealth to the gods, by throwing them in the lakes. This was 1000 years before our time, minimum. The two most famous symbols are the gold horns. These horns are more then a foot long made of pure gold. There were originally two horns, but know there are four, this is because people have been reading about them, and trying to recreate them. They are trying to fill the hole in the museum caused by the fact that the original Golden horns were stolen and melted, and then sold in 1802. Sad story. Another national symbol was the sun wagon. It is part of the earliest religion in one of the oldest surviving cultures (that being Denmark. Americans got it wrong, size isn't important, rather the idea of age is wisdom is better.) Apparently, a horse pulled the sun across the skies (like Egypt, and Greek and Roman religions...) there is a depiction found of it. That was cool to see.

This museum has stuff that is dated back to the year 5500 BC. HOW DOES THAT FEEL AMERICA???? 

Then we went to the Viking exhibit. Here we saw and heard many cool things. For instance, did you know, Normandy is named because of the Vikings. (nor is north in Danish, so Norman is North man.) This is also true with Russia, as Ru means to row. I got to see replicas of what they wore, and other stuff. We say many Thor’s hammers (which don't look like the hammer in the movie Thor.) We also say the remnants of a ship. This ship was 37 meters long...  SO COOL! We also got to lift the recreation of a Viking sword (which was heavy) and wear a chain coat (which was super heavy). Then we went on a train to Roskilde, and we will go see another Viking museum tomorrow.