One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains.
One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains. The shoe is 28 cm long, which roughly corresponds to a modern size 36 or 37. The owner probably considered the shoe to be lost for good, but on 17 September 2007 it was found again – virtually intact.
Sometime around 2000 BCE, a red-wing thrush died at Skirådalskollen in the Dovrefjell mountain range. Its small body quickly became buried under an ice patch. Upon emerging again 4 000 years later, its internal organs are still intact.
In recent years, hundreds of such discoveries have been made in ice patches, revealing traces of hunting, trapping, traffic, animals and plant life – small, frozen moments of the past.
Read more at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Image: Bronze Age shoes from Langfonne in Jotunheimen. Photo: Vegard Vike, Cultural History Museum in Oslo. (Photo Credit: Vegard Vike, Cultural History Museum in Oslo)
