Scotland and Iceland were settled by the Vikings a thousand years ago. Remote and fascinating, they look like something out of a Nordic fairy tale. People live in log houses with grass roofs, speak an ancient Viking language and delight in disguise and in traditional dress and singing Nordic ballads. But there is a part of their postcard culture that outsiders find positively shocking. Every summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the Faroe Islands herd pods of pilot whales shore and butcher them with hooks and knives...
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Faroe Whale Cull - Faroe Islands
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