Bryggens Museum
Archaeological museum built over medieval wharf ruins, home to hundreds of everyday rune sticks.
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This guide to Bryggens Museum in Bergen starts with a few runes scratched into a sliver of wood, a blunt message from someone called Gyda, and the question of who it was meant for. It reaches forward to the fire that swept Bryggen in nineteen fifty-five and the archaeologists who dug beneath the ashes. Best heard downstairs in the Below Ground exhibition, beside the medieval remains.
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