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Photo of the Ladby ship burialPhoto by Flickr userMandiasof the Ladby Viking ship burial. The museum is built around the excavated Viking ship in its original location. For more…
Horse bones found in a heathen grave on display in Museet Ribes VikingerFoot bones from a horse found in a pit in a heathen grave in Ribe. Probably a pagan offering. Details about the exhibition can be found at…
Iron nails from a wagon burial on display in Museet Ribes VikingerIron nails surviving from a wagon used as a coffin in Ribe Viking Museum. Details about the exhibition can be found at http://www.ribesvikinger.dk/en/
The Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states.…
Double ship-setting at Anundshög, SwedenA double ship setting at the prehistoric burial mound atAnundshög in Sweden, the largest of 5 ship settings on the site. Many ship settings…
'Board Games in Boat Burials: Play in the Performance of Migration and Viking Age Mortuary Practice' by Mark A. HallThis contribution explores an aspect of boat burials in the second half of the first millennium ad across Northern Europe, specifically boat burials…
News: Vikings abused and beheaded their slavesAn article interviewing Anna Kjellström and Elise Naumann about the treatment of Viking slaves in burials.
News about Norway's Largest Viking ShipScience and experience center called Sagastad is being built at Nordfjordeid, Norway, and will feature a full-size reconstruction of the Myklebust…
Myklebust Round Barrows and ShipThe largest of five mounds at Myklebust, Nordfjordeid, Sogn og Fjordane in Norway contained the remains of the largest Viking Age ship found in…
Report on the Pre-Christian Religions of the North ProjectA report by Dr Leszek Gardeła on an ongoing international collaborative project, 'The Pre-Christian Religions of the North Project and its…
The Viking Ship Museum, OsloThe Viking Ship Museum in Oslo presents an exhibition of the Gokstad, Oseberg and Tune Viking ships, and of finds related to them.