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  • VOICES OF THE FJORDS - She Came Home to Hyllestad and Found a 1000 Years Waiting

    In our latest Voices of the Fjords episode, we meet Frøydis Akse — master mariner turned Viking Age guide — on her family farm in Hyllestad, where millstone quarries and ancient fjords tell a story far deeper than any TV drama. She talks about the women history forgot, the skills that shaped a civilisation, and why the real Viking story is alive on the Fjord Coast.

    Frøydis Akse, founder of Viking Footprints, rowing a traditional clinker-built wooden boat on the sunlit fjord at Hyllestad,