History The Tune Ship: The Forgotten Viking Ship Beside Oseberg
The Tune ship is the quiet Viking ship in Oslo: excavated in 1867, only half preserved, built around 900 AD, and living in Oseberg's shadow ever since.
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History The Tune ship is the quiet Viking ship in Oslo: excavated in 1867, only half preserved, built around 900 AD, and living in Oseberg's shadow ever since.
Daily Life & Culture The Oseberg cart is the only Viking wagon to survive intact. Its carvings, its fixed axle and its 834 AD burial tell us what it was really built to do.
History The Gokstad ship: unearthed in Norway in 1880, the grave of a mysterious chieftain with wounds from violence, and a 1893 replica that crossed the Atlantic.
History The Oseberg ship is the richest Viking ship burial ever found: excavated in 1904/05, two buried women, carved animal head posts, and a mystery that endures.
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