VIKING MUSEUM
A thousand years of peace between Normandy and the descendants of the Norsemen who once ravaged this fair province of France and reduced its capital to ruins will be celebrated by the creation of a Viking museum at Rouen. The new museum is being housed in the Maclou cloister, close to the famous church with its lace work of flamboyant Gothic architecture. War and peace are evoked in this.exhibition. It recalls the invasions of the Norsemen, which began in 841 A.D. and continued until 911, when Rollo, the Viking chief made a treaty of peace with the king of France, became his son-in-law and was converted to the Christian religion. Two exhibits whicji attract much attention are replicas of Viking ships. Models of Scandinavian churches are also shown, and typical Nordic houses made of wood. The governments of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have contributed valuable exhibits. Relics, documents and other souvenirs trace the assimilation of the Norsemen and tell the history of the development of Normandy, famous today for its lovely scenery, its agricultural produce and its steady, hard-working population.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 9
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