From the BBC World Service and N.I.K, this is Death in Ice Valley.

I'm Maritigroth.

And I'm Neil McCarthy.

And it's been two years since she last heard from us.

And even though the podcast is on silent, we've not given up the hunt for the East-Hell woman.

This episode's story starts with an American man on a holiday in Europe, which takes him to Norway.

So I added Bergen on as a last stop, just because I love Bergen.

And I just spent a few days in Bergen kind of hiking around and enjoying the town.

While I was there, I stopped into the Norwegian State Archive in Bergen.

It's a beautiful building that archive there.

Lots of light and the tables are down below, so you go and get on the stairs.

I went in to ask them if I could take a closer look at some document or other.

You know, you put your stuff down in the little locker, you know, before you go down into the reading room.

And I walked into the top and I looked down and I thought, well, that woman at the table down there looks familiar.

I was deeply into the work I was there for.

You had a stack of documents that you were copying down.

And I was very concentrated.

I think that she was the only other person there.

So after I got my document, I took a closer look and it was you.

And then I was getting up to leave and I thought, well, I should say something.

You know, it's a very unexpected occasion.

And then came this person and said something and I was this concentrated.

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