The Oseberg Ship within the former Viking Ship Museum.
Museum of the Viking Age/College of Oslo
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Museum of the Viking Age/College of Oslo
The Oseberg longship – thought of one of many most important historical discoveries of the Viking age — voyaged to its ultimate vacation spot final month. However the journey it took to get there was difficult.
The ship, constructed about 1200 years in the past throughout the peak of the Viking age, was first found in 1903 in Norway.
Jan Invoice, a professor of archeology on the College of Oslo, mentioned the ship might have been constructed for somebody necessary.
“It may need been a king, may need been a queen,” Invoice instructed NPR.
Invoice can be the curator of the Viking Ship Assortment on the college’s museum, the place the Oseberg ship is saved.
“[The Oseberg ship] confirmed us for the primary time what a Viking ship would seem like,” he mentioned.
Etched into the ship are intricate carvings and mounts for shields.
“It is actually like how we think about the Viking ship ought to seem like with the shields alongside the aspect of the ship,” Invoice mentioned.
