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...
17 KB (1,866 words) - 14:56, 11 April 2024
New Oseberg Ship Foundation Video: Viking ship replica Saga Oseberg tacking Video: Viking ship replica Saga Oseberg wearing Video: Viking ship replica Saga...
28 KB (3,587 words) - 02:45, 9 November 2024
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...
38 KB (4,792 words) - 02:44, 2 October 2024
industry. The Oseberg field was named after Oseberg ship, one of Norway's most significant archeological discoveries. The ancient Viking ship from the early...
19 KB (2,011 words) - 08:34, 29 October 2024
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...
7 KB (544 words) - 03:55, 29 October 2024
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...
11 KB (1,169 words) - 06:09, 4 October 2024
The Oseberg tapestry is a fragmentary tapestry, discovered within the Viking Oseberg ship burial in Norway. The tapestry (dated to about 834AD) is 16...
13 KB (1,867 words) - 00:38, 7 September 2024
Tønsberg (section Oseberg Mound)
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...
44 KB (4,342 words) - 20:02, 3 November 2024
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...
4 KB (398 words) - 21:12, 5 January 2024
crew of thirty to forty men. Another well preserved viking ship, The Oseberg Ship– from Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway, was found in 1904...
21 KB (2,621 words) - 15:04, 7 November 2024
[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...
64 KB (6,951 words) - 04:42, 27 October 2024
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...
39 KB (4,468 words) - 19:09, 6 November 2024
Vestfold (section Oseberg Burial Mound)
Examples include the Oseberg- and Gokstad Burial Mounds. While the Oseberg Ship was discovered in Tønsberg, the Gokstad Ship was discovered in Sandefjord...
96 KB (8,124 words) - 15:38, 21 October 2024
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...
11 KB (1,123 words) - 23:43, 15 June 2024
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...
29 KB (3,978 words) - 15:28, 28 May 2024
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...
38 KB (5,120 words) - 04:43, 8 October 2024
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...
19 KB (2,349 words) - 08:56, 27 October 2024
castle in the 13th century. Tønsberg is also home of Oseberg Mound, where the 9th-century Oseberg Ship was excavated. The large city of Tønsberg was founded...
38 KB (2,258 words) - 22:39, 2 November 2024
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...
85 KB (11,137 words) - 07:14, 3 November 2024
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...
16 KB (1,407 words) - 06:26, 27 October 2024
ravens may be portraits of Odin. The Oseberg tapestry fragments, discovered within the Viking Age Oseberg ship burial in Norway, feature a scene containing...
21 KB (2,689 words) - 03:56, 26 October 2024
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...
266 KB (8,398 words) - 14:15, 23 October 2024
Sutton Hoo (redirect from Sutton Hoo ship-burial)
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...
96 KB (11,735 words) - 08:52, 25 October 2024
archaeologist. He was responsible for the excavation and conservation of the Oseberg Ship (Osebergfunnet) . Gabriel Gustafson was born in Visby, in Gotland County...
4 KB (378 words) - 15:02, 1 April 2024
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...
59 KB (6,945 words) - 19:25, 22 October 2024
Fram ("Forward") is a ship that was used in expeditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions by the Norwegian explorers Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup,...
11 KB (1,125 words) - 22:32, 5 November 2024
McCain constructed a replica Viking village and ship. The ship was modeled after the Oseberg ship and deployed at Little Port, Newfoundland for filming...
16 KB (1,745 words) - 13:09, 5 October 2024
Marine navigation (redirect from Ship navigation)
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...
30 KB (2,841 words) - 00:07, 16 June 2024
typically accompanied by grave goods. Germanic ship burials are well attested, both in archeology, such as at Oseberg and Sutton Hoo and in writing, such as Gisla...
35 KB (4,599 words) - 15:45, 8 November 2024