“In February 2015, I was invited by Patricia Gonsalves, Archery Technician on the ‘CW’s ARROW’ and director of Lykopis School of Archery, to Vancouver to give a lecture and workshop on Viking Archery and Bowmaking…”
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” I stood outside the barn and with both hands, pressed against its enormous red doors; the flakes of paint coming off and sticking to my fingers as I entered. The bow staves we ordered the previous year had arrived the day before I left Lofoten, but I was assured that they were now safely tucked away somewhere in the barn; ‘somewhere…”
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