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Wooden Vessel from the Oseberg Burial

A decorated wooden vessel.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Buckets, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Carving, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Ship Burials, Vessels, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden, Wood

Wooden Box from the Oseberg Burial

A wooden box with a lock. It contained tools for weaving when found.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Boxes, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Locks, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Ship Burials, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden, Wood

Vendel and Valsgärde Helmets on Pinterest

A Pinterest page for photographs of the Vendel and Valsgärde helmets.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Armour, Grave goods, Helmet Plates, Helmets, Reconstruction, Replica, Sverige, Sweden, Valsgärde, Vendel Period, Vendeltiden, Warfare

Two grave urns on display in Museet Ribes Vikinger

Two grave urns from Ribe, one with comb and knife. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/

Tags: Artefact, Burials, Combs, Danmark, Denmark, Exhibition, Grave goods, Knife, Knives, Museet Ribes Vikinger, Paganism, Religion, Ribe, Urns, Viking Age

Two Axes from the Oseberg Ship Burial

Two plain axes for general work.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Axes, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Grave goods, Iron, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Ship Burials, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden, Wood

Tools for Textile Production from the Oseberg Burial

Various tools for textile production, including fragments of woven baskets, wooden bowls, balls of yarn, tablets for weaving, beech wood needles, a slate sharpening stone, a piece of quartz, and pieces of beeswax.

Tools for Textile Production from the Oseberg Burial

A wooden yarn winder made of beech, wooden spindles from drop spindles, a spindle whorl, and fragments of yarn found in the burial.

The Viking Ship Museum, Oslo

The Viking ship museum in Oslo houses the Gokstad, Oseberg and Tune ships together with the grave goods from Oseberg.

Tags: Bygdøy, Gokstad, Grave goods, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Oslo, Seafaring, Ships, Tune, Viking Age

The Vendel XIV Helmet

A helmet in the museum at Gamla Uppsala

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Armour, Grave goods, Helmets, Sverige, Sweden, Uppsala, Vendel Period, Vendeltiden, Warfare, Warriors

The Tune Ship

The Tune ship has not survived as well as the Gokstad and Oseberg ships, with which it shares the Vikingskipshuset. However, it appears to have been a faster, sea-going vessel that could have outsailed both. It is not a cargo ship, because it does…

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Fredrikstad, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Nedre Haugen, Norge, Norway, Rolvsøy, Seafaring, Ship Burials, Ships, Tune, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden

The Sæbø sword

The article describes the Sæbø (or Thurmuth) sword. This sword was found in an early 9th-century barrow at Sæbø in 1825. It has a runic inscription on its blade.

Tags: 9th Century, Burial Mound, Grave goods, Norge, Norway, Runeinnskrifter, Runeinskrifter, Runes / Runer, Runic, Runic inscriptions, Runinskrifter, Sæbø, Sogn og Fjordane, Swords, Viking Age, Vikøyri, Weapons, Writing

The Oseberg Wagon

The Oseberg Wagon was one of several means of transport that were found with the mid-10th century Oseberg ship burial. The wagon is intricately carved with scenes on all its sides. The back of the wagon features at least ten cats, possibly relating…

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Carving, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Ship Burials, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden, Waggons, Wood

The Oseberg Tapestry

These are fragments of a tapestry that was found with the Oseberg ship burial. The tapestry appears to depict a procession including horse-drawn wagons.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Cloth, Flax, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Ship Burials, Tapestries, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden, Wool

The Oseberg Ship viewed from the stern

The Oseberg ship is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It was found in a grave mound at Oseberg in Norway with the remains of two women, and with a large amount of grave goods. These photos show it from the stern.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Seafaring, Ship Burials, Ships, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden

The Oseberg Ship viewed from the Stem

The Oseberg ship is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It was found in a grave mound at Oseberg in Norway with the remains of two women, and with a large amount of grave goods. These photos show it from the stem.

Tags: Archaeological Artefacts, Burial Mound, Bygdoy, Bygdøy, Grave goods, Kulturhistorisk museum, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Seafaring, Ship Burials, Ships, Viking Age, Vikingatida, Vikingskipshuset, Vikingtiden

The Oseberg Ship

The Oseberg ship is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It was found in a grave mound at Oseberg in Norway with the remains of two women, and with a large amount of grave goods.

Tags: Burial Mound, Bygdøy, Grave goods, Modern, Norge, Norway, Oseberg, Oslo, Seafaring, Ships, Viking Age, Vikingtid