During this three month semester abroad, the students were given one long weekend with no classes to travel wherever they want. As most students were going to Rome, and we didn’t wish to look like a large group of American tourists; Jennifer, Kerrie, and I decided to go to Denmark to visit family friends of Jennifer’s. The Baxters (Clive, Annette, Andreas, Samuel, David, and Rebecca) live in a village called Herringlose (sounds like hang loose in Danish) about 25 minutes outside of Copenhagen. On our drive to their house, we passed fields with large mounds of dirt, which are actually Viking burial grounds, noted by their stones shaped like a boat. When Vikings buried a nobleman, they would put him in his boat, kill his horses to be buried with him in the boat, add any other jewels or possessions, and cover the grave with a large amount of dirt.
