Oseberg Ship
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Oct 7, 2026
Waldemar JanuszczakNARRATOR
While digging on his farm, said Knut Rom, he'd come across a buried ship, and he thought it might be Viking.
Waldemar JanuszczakNARRATOR
Two days later, Professor Gustafson arrived at the farm and confirmed the discovery of this thing, the Oseberg ship.
Waldemar JanuszczakNARRATOR
[dramatic music] Will you look at that, eh? It's made entirely of oak, over 60 feet long, 15 feet wide, and decorated at both ends with these boisterous Viking carvings.
Waldemar JanuszczakNARRATOR
Inside the ship were two dead bodies, an older woman, who may have been a queen, and a younger woman, probably her slave, who was buried with her.
speaker_4NARRATOR
[horn blowing] Casting off into the sea in a Viking longboat is a must on a day of celebration like this.
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This longboat is an exact reconstruction of the Oseberg ship displayed in the Viking Museum in Oslo.
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It is hard to imagine that in the old days, the Vikings spent months traveling in these small vessels, raiding and plundering and winning one battle after the other.
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A map in Oslo's Viking Museum shows that the Vikings were not only feared warriors, but also successful traders.
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Their shipbuilding skills surpassed those of any other people of their day by far, giving them their major advantage.
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Their notorious ships were particularly stable thanks to the clinker or lapstrake method of construction, whereby the planks of the hull overlap.
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The Oseberg longboat is the jewel among the ocean vessels discovered from the time of the Vikings.
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It has been copied many times.
Patty SteeleHOST
Other times, a massive grave would hold the entire funeral ship, and they were huge.
Patty SteeleHOST
In fact, there's a museum in Oslo, Norway, that contains the really well-preserved ninth-century Oseberg Viking ship that was the funeral vessel for two powerful Viking women.
Patty SteeleHOST
On board with them were pieces of furniture, artwork, clothing, dishes, carts, and even several slaves so they could get where they were going once they were back in life.
Patty SteeleHOST
And this entire thing was buried in a mound.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
Even when they were telling... sequential narratives.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
I'll show you, for example, the one from the from the Oseberg ship.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
So you've got the stern of the ship.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
And what it looks like it's happening here is that you have a sequential story, but it's all condensed in one picture.
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Luciano PezzoliGUEST
Absolutely.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
But that's a very good approach because that's, you know, very often, for example, say, well, this is about 680 people.
Luciano PezzoliGUEST
around, like 100 years later, you've got the Oseberg collection,
Daniel FarrandHOST
which