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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...
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    New Oseberg Ship Foundation Video: Viking ship replica Saga Oseberg tacking Video: Viking ship replica Saga Oseberg wearing Video: Viking ship replica Saga...
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    Viking art (redirect from Oseberg style)
    artistry at the very beginning and end of the Viking period, namely, the Oseberg ship-burial carvings of the early 9th century and the carved decoration of...
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  • industry. The Oseberg field was named after Oseberg ship, one of Norway's most significant archeological discoveries. The ancient Viking ship from the early...
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    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...
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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) is 16...
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    the Viking Age Oseberg Ship buried near Tønsberg, Norway, features a carving of the symbol on an ornately stylized bedpost and the Oseberg tapestry fragments...
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    Tønsberg Fortress every July. Tønsberg is also home of Oseberg Mound, where the 9th-century Oseberg Ship was excavated. The Old Norse name of the town was...
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    Kvalsund ship is of an earlier and less advanced construction than the Oseberg ship, also found in Norway, which dates to the early ninth century. Being...
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  • [better source needed] The remains of the younger of the two women buried with the Oseberg Ship were tested and discovered to have mtDNA of U7. The purported remains...
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    particularly the Germanic Iron Age Dejbjerg wagon in Denmark and the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial wagon in Norway. The goddess's name Nerthus (from Proto-Germanic...
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    Retrieved Jun 20, 2020. Osebergskipet – The Oseberg Ship, Norway Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy Archived 2011-10-06...
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    Examples include the Oseberg- and Gokstad Burial Mounds. While the Oseberg Ship was discovered in Tønsberg, the Gokstad Ship was discovered in Sandefjord...
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    the ship burials of Oseberg, Borre, Gokstad and Tune in South Norway, all of which date back to the 9th and 10th centuries. It is the only ship burial...
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    for duvets, at least for a thousand years.[citation needed]. The Oseberg viking ship AD 820 contained, amongst the deposits, down duvets. In the 15th...
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    and found in graves, notably in examples such as at Sutton Hoo and the Oseberg ship. During the establishment of the church in Northern Europe, horsemeat...
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  • animals and humans, perhaps sacrificed. The Oseberg ship burial also may have contained a seeress. The ship contained the remains of two people, one a...
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    ravens may be portraits of Odin. The Oseberg tapestry fragments, discovered within the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial in Norway, feature a scene containing...
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    Kommuna is a submarine rescue ship in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet and the world's oldest active duty naval vessel. A catamaran, she...
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  • Retrieved 2024-02-13. UiO Museum of Cultural History (December 10, 2012). "The Oseberg finds". University of Oslo. Retrieved 2013-12-26. UiO Museum of Cultural...
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    The Khufu ship is an intact full-size solar barque from ancient Egypt. It was sealed into a pit alongside the Great Pyramid of pharaoh Khufu around 2500...
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  • McCain constructed a replica Viking village and ship. The ship was modeled after the Oseberg ship and deployed at Little Port, Newfoundland for filming...
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    the province of Utrecht (modern Netherlands). Summer – The Viking ship of Oseberg near Tønsberg (modern Norway) is buried in a mound, during the Viking...
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    Turbinia (category 1894 ships)
    steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the...
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    archaeologist. He was responsible for the excavation and conservation of the Oseberg Ship (Osebergfunnet) . Gabriel Gustafson was born in Visby, in Gotland County...
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    bearing on the Beowulf story, but do not contain ship-burials. The famous Gokstad and Oseberg ship-burials of Norway are of a later date. The inclusion...
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    designed the frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Constitution and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard...
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    Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art...
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    double-cross feature in the left". Upon its discovery, the 10th century Oseberg ship burial was found to contain a ceremonial wagon. One side of the ornate...
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    Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup,...
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