UK - Scotland - Glencoe - Viking horn helmet boy on walk

Wearing a plastic Viking horn helmet, a young man has stopped to rest amid the spectacular wilderness of Glencoe, a valley surrounded by high peaks 3,000 feet (1,000m) high mountains. The landscape is magnificent but unforgiving and walkers mainly stay on well-marked paths or, as this lad is doing - walking along the A82 road that snakes through this Scottish Glen. He admits to having trekked from Glasgow on pagan fertility Wassail rite, once performed in medieval times. This region of Britain, lake many others, was populated by Viking raiders who later settled locally and raised families whose descendents now inhabit the UK. English is full of old Norse words as are place names.

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Wearing a plastic Viking horn helmet, a young man has stopped to rest amid the spectacular wilderness of Glencoe, a valley surrounded by high peaks 3,000 feet (1,000m) high mountains. The landscape is magnificent but unforgiving and walkers mainly stay on well-marked paths or, as this lad is doing - walking along the A82 road that snakes through this Scottish Glen. He admits to having trekked from Glasgow on pagan fertility Wassail rite, once performed in medieval times. This region of Britain, lake many others, was populated by Viking raiders who later settled locally and raised families whose descendents now inhabit the UK. English is full of old Norse words as are place names.