Oseberg ship
Norse burial boat
The Oseberg ship is a remarkably preserved Viking vessel discovered in a burial mound in southern Norway in 1904.
Dating to around 820 CE, it contained the remains of two women along with elaborate grave goods—carts, textiles, animal carvings.
The ship is now housed at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo and stands as one of the finest surviving examples of Viking Age craftsmanship.
- longshipSlender Norse rowing vessel
- wood carvingSculpting with timber
- grave goodsItems interred with corpses
- burial chamberRoom for interring remains
- moundHeaped earth formation
prow · rudder · keel · queen · cart · sledges · sacrificial offerings · mast · oarlocks · Norse sagas · sailcloth · funerary rites · oars · sail · Viking · oak · Norway · voyage
- boatsboat, canoe, kayak, yacht, ferry
- NorwayOslo, Bergen, Trondheim, fjord, fjords
- Nordic ArtScandinavian design, Munch, The Scream, Viking ships, runestones
- Nordic artifactsrunestones, rune stones, burial goods, drinking horns, brooches
- Norse artifactsrunestone, Viking ships, viking axe, viking helmet, Thor's hammer
- Norse HistoryVikings, longships, rune stones, sagas, Norse gods
ship function
Oseberg shipwarship
Armed naval vessel
military vessel · Viking longship · knarr · man-of-war · battleship