I'm smelting

This group of blacksmith re-enactors at L'Anse aux Meadows, prepare the fire which will be used to heat the Viking smelt. photo by
Emma Graney/Transcontinential Media
Hammering the iron bloom. photo by
Parks Canada photo
Ken 'Grettr Blackhands' Cook shows the iron blooms taken from the smelt. photo by
Emma Graney/Transcontinential Media
Parks Canada site interpreter Bonnie Hynes makes a glass bead at L'Anse aux Meadows. photo by
Emma Graney/Transcontinential Media

Thorgeir works with a spring pole lathe to turn a bowl. photo by
— Emma Grainey/Transcontinental Media

Published on August 31, 2010
Emma Graney

L’Anse aux Meadows — Last weekend L’Anse aux Meadows was filled with the sound of Vikings singing and chanting, punctuated by the hissing spit of freshly smelt iron and the clang of hammers beating the red-hot bloom.

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