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MuseumsSite Name: Oslo Ship Museum Alternative Name: Viking Ship Museum, Oseberg Ship Museum
Country: Norway Fylke: Oslo Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Oslo
Latitude: 59.904601N  Longitude: 10.685438E
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Oslo Ship Museum
Oslo Ship Museum submitted by Thorgrim : The Oseberg Viking ship was used to bury a Viking Queen in a great mound. Notice the steering oar that gave us our "starboard". (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Oslo, Norway. The Viking Ship Museum houses the Gokstad and Oseberg ships plus fragments of other crafts, weapons and artefacts.

The 12th century stave church is located in the nearby Folk Museum.

Note: Research indicates the Vikings revered Stone Age objects
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Oslo Ship Museum
Oslo Ship Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Norway: Gokstat Viking Ship at the Oslo Vikingskiphuset (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oslo Ship Museum
Oslo Ship Museum submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Norway The Oseberg Viking Ship buried in 834 CE. It is 22 metres long and required 30 oarsmen. Located at the Vikingskipshuset, Bygdoy, Oslo. Photographed in 2003 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Oslo Ship Museum
Oslo Ship Museum submitted by Thorgrim : This stave church dates from the 12th century, but it is included here as it clearly reflects the style of earlier pagan temples. It is covered with carvings of heroes, serpents and dragons. Oslo Folk Museum (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Vikings revered Stone Age objects by SumDoood on Tuesday, 08 February 2011
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http://www.khm.uio.no/vikingskipshuset/index_eng.html
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Vikings revered Stone Age objects by Andy B on Friday, 04 February 2011
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New archaeological findings suggest that the Vikings considered Stone Age objects to have magical qualities, and that such “antiques” were more important in Viking culture than previously understood.

The Vikings buried this ship, the "Oseberg," in a grave south of Oslo. New discoveries indicate they also buried other items, with a purpose. The Oseberg is now in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.

Examinations of around 10 Viking graves found in Rogaland, southwest Norway, revealed Stone Age items, such as weapons, amulets and tools. Olle Hemdorff of the Archaelogical Museum in Stavanger told newspaper Aftenposten that he believes the items were buried so that “they would protect and bring luck to the dead in the after-life.”

The latest revelations are linked to discoveries from Vikings who had travelled to Iceland, and who have been found carrying Stone Age items with them. Previously, such findings were not considered to be significant, but recent analysis links them to similar, earlier-overlooked evidence from several locations over the former Viking lands.

As well as being buried with the dead, as were some of their ships, Stone Age arrowheads and daggers were sometimes buried under Viking houses. Hemdorff suggests that “by including objects from their ancestors, the Vikings legitimized and gained ‘control’ over the past.”

The custom of burying Stone Age treasures has also been identified in Iron Age communities and excavations from the age of migration (400-600 BC) found in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Indeed, the practice is mentioned in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where it is stated that flint, pottery, round stones and shards are thrown into Ophelia’s grave.

Hemdorff speculates that Shakespeare “probably built his own description on an old custom that we now know goes back to Viking times.”

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    Re: Vikings revered Stone Age objects by Runemage on Friday, 04 February 2011
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    At last, an open view of finds.
    "Previously, such findings were not considered to be significant"
    This attitude is so arrogant and unfortunately so prevalent. It's so important to accurately list and record everything that's found at a site , no matter whether the person interpreting those finds thinks at that time it's significant or not.
    Disregarding things just because they don't fit an already expressed and accepted viewpoint is just plain wrong in my opinion.



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Re: Oslo Ship Museum Street View by Andy B on Friday, 05 November 2010
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And Street View - look at all those coaches outside!


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Re: Oslo Ship Museum by Anonymous on Friday, 05 November 2010
59*54'16" N : 10*41'06" E

Zooming in at the sat-map you can see the X-shaped building ;)
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    Re: Oslo Ship Museum by Martin_L on Friday, 05 November 2010
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    Many thanks for your correction. Changes applied. Prvious coordinates were wrong for 50km.
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