Bjorn Wegge

Bjorn Wegge is the director of information for the Norwegian Humanitarian Enterprise. He initiated a 1997 album involving a Norwegian choir and Azeri musicians and singers. It featured a photograph of the Kish church on its cover. The belief in Heyerdahl's theory is explicitly stated in the choice of the album's title: "The Land We Came From", with the choir's leader stating that Azerbaijan was "a culture that may be our long-forgotten homeland". [ [http://infostore.org/info/2737067 SKRUK. AZERBAIJAN SHARKILARI. FOLK - AZERBAIJANIAN MUSIC. MP3, WMA - INFOSTORE.ORG ] ] Of the Kish church was preceded by an archaeological excavation that was also run by NHE and paid for by Norway. The chief archaeologist was the Norwegian J. Bjørnar Storfjell. As a result of a visit to the church by Heyerdahl during the excavation, Storfjell was appointed by Heyerdahl to be the chief archaeologist of a YUKOS-sponsored archaeological excavation to the Sea of Azov in 2001 to find evidence to back up Heyerdahl's Odin theory. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1353343.stm BBC News | EUROPE | Thor searches for Odin ] ] Photographs of artefacts found during the Azov excavation appeared in Heyerdahl's 2001 book "Jakten på Odin. På sporet av vår fortid" (The Hunt for Odin. Examining our Past).

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