Peter Lacus wrote:
Pat,
The item in the bottom center of the picture looks sort of like an inukshuk, a stone effigy of a person, used as a marker, among other things, by the Inuit of the Canadian North. Are they used in Norway, too?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk
nope, it's genuine Norwegian Troll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll). :-) Well, sort of. You can see them about anywhere through Norway.
Bedo.
Maybe we're looking a two different things...?
What *I* saw was a tall pile of rocks.
I see these a LOT in the islands of Hawaii, especially the Big Island.
While I suspect they may well be ancient in origin, new ones are being stacked/built continually in that landscape.
keith whaley
