We, the modern humans, often judge our forebears and their way of life based on the reality of our own time. We see our ancestors as simple and one-dimensional. They were no such thing.

Santa’s reindeer have a full set of antlers at Christmas and may all be female. The bull normally loses his after the mating season in late autumn.

With the birth of Norway as a modern-day national state in 1814 came big ideas. One of them was to establish better inland transportation systems.