  ArchaeologyExcavations In Friland every municipality employs a team of archaeologists: this team is present at building projects and checks the soil for important things. Construction companies are obliged by law to report archaeological findings; intentionally withholding or even destroying findings is severely punished. On the other hand there is a generous compensation for the loss of time and income that a possible finding can cause. Because of this important things will in most cases be reported and conserved in time. Burial mounds and other places where bodies are found may usually not be removed. When this is needed anyway the bodies will be documented and reburied in another place. Possible grave goods may be exhibited in museums as long as the deceased is compensated with objects of equal function and value. This is by the way a rule that originates from the Ferna Sed religion, in which it is believed that the deceased will live on in the afterlife and needs the grave goods there. Monuments Many buildings and places are declared monuments, which means that they can be maintained with government subsidies and that nothing may be damaged. Many monuments are opened to the public and serve as a museum. Museums and re-enactment The largest museum of the country is the Frilandisk Utstallung (Frilandic Museum), where one can find everything from fossil trilobites to the harness of king Țeudrik, a reconstructed Viking ship and a sabre that used to belong to Napoleon. There is also lots of attention for the so-called re-enactment, like in the annual re-enaction of the battle of Dannanwalț, in which armoured knights on horseback replay the whole battle once again. A similar re-enaction of the battle of Algsmar in modern Hiveria has been banned by the local authorities because the Frilandic visitors got so enthusiastic that they spontaneously started a fight with the gendarme to be able to win the battle almost a thousand years later.  |