Gimli unveils fresh-faced Viking statue

Gimli tore away the tarps hiding their IcelandicViking from the public eye on Friday and is he ever looking good.

After 48 years of standing guard, it was time for the dirt and the grime to get stripped away from the fibreglassstatue.

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"It's exactly as it looked in 1967," saidGlenn Eliasson, son of the statue's designer. Eliasson was worried when the renovations began but approves of how the renewal turned out.

Alberta's Dinosaur Valley Studios was in charge of getting the Viking back in tip-top shape.