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  2. Oseberg Ship - Wikipedia

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    The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway. This ship is commonly acknowledged to be among the finest artifacts to have survived from the Viking Age .

  3. Viking Ship Museum (Oslo) - Wikipedia

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    The museum is most famous for the completely whole Oseberg ship, excavated from the largest known ship burial in the world. Other main attractions at the Viking Ship Museum are the Gokstad ship and Tune ship. Additionally, the Viking Age display includes sledges, beds, a horse cart, wood carving, tent components, buckets and other grave goods. [3]

  4. Archaeologists found Viking skeletons over 1,000 years old ...

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    The Oseberg cart, from the Oseberg Viking ship, on display in Oslo, Norway. It was found in a burial mound in Tønsberg, Norway and belonged to an elite Viking-era woman.

  5. Ship burial - Wikipedia

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    Another well preserved viking ship, The Oseberg Ship– from Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway, was found in 1904 by Gabriel Gustafson. [24] The burial was covered with a 40 meter wide and more than 6 meter high mound of stone, clay and turf, and consisted of a 21.5 meter long ship with a tent-shaped, timber-built and 5.6 meter ...

  6. Norse funeral - Wikipedia

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    Viking burial scene, Dublinia Excavation of the Oseberg Ship burial mound in Norway Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas and Old Norse poetry.

  7. Oseberg tapestry fragments - Wikipedia

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    The Oseberg tapestry is a fragmentary tapestry, discovered within the Viking Oseberg ship burial in Norway. The tapestry (dated to about 834AD) [1] is 16 to 23 centimeters in width, but the full length is unknown. The tapestry is filled with a large assortment of human and animal figures with varying interpretations. It is made from wool, silk ...

  8. 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons unearthed ...

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    The Viking burial ground, used during the 9th and 10th centuries, was discovered on the southern outskirts of the village of Åsum. 50 "exceptionally well-preserved" Viking skeletons unearthed in ...

  9. Archaeologists unearth more than 50 Viking skeletons at huge ...

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    Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large Viking-era burial ground in the east of the country.

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