St. Abbs

Some scholars, indeed, had had their eyes opened, but even highly cultured persons in the lay world read the Bhagavad Gita with enthusiastic admiration, but quite uncritically.

Much as I sympathize with Margaret Noble, Sister Nivedita, Jane Hay of St. Abbs, Berwickshire, N.B., and Rose R. Anthen, I cannot desire that their excessive love for the Gita should find followers.

I have it on the best authority that the apparent superiority of the Indian scriptures to those of the Christian world influenced Margaret Noble to become Sister Nivedita.

A great result from a comparatively small cause.

In the case of Endgame, some location scout at some point was asked to find a location to serve as New Asgard, the fishing village home of Thor.

For this, they settled on the Scottish village of St. Abbs.

Now, there are a few reasons why this was a smart choice.

One was that it's in a country with an upstart film industry promoted by its government, so government approval was likely easy.

Proximity to Edinburgh served two important roles.

One was that it meant there was a big city nearby with the facilities to host a large production, and two was that for the previous Avengers movie, Infinity War, they spent months filming a complex action sequence in Edinburgh.

The two films were shot back-to-back and, in some cases, simultaneously, so this way, the production could easily move from Edinburgh to St. Abbs for a few days after, rather than completely moving to a new country to film this relatively simple scene in New Asgard.

In practice, a location scout typically presents the movie's director a variety of options for where to shoot.