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Oseberg Ship

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The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway. [1]

61 relations: Agder, Anders Hagen, Appliqué, Arthritis, Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder, Black Sea, Book of Durrow, Bow (ship), British Isles, Bygdøy, Clavicle, Clinker (boat building), Cloisonné, Dendrochronology, Færder National Park, Gabriel Gustafson, Gautama Buddha, Gåten Ragnarok, Gokstad ship, Gospel Book, Grave goods, Haakon Shetelig, Halfdan the Black, Haplogroup, Haplogroup U (mtDNA), Harald Fairhair, Human sacrifice, Insular art, Karve (ship), Kristin Halvorsen, Kurgan, Lotus position, Norway, Oak, Old Norse, Oseberg tapestry fragments, Oslo, Osprey Publishing, Outlander (film), Ship burial, Silk, Skeleton, Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Stern, Steve Noon, Sutton Hoo, Swastika, Sweden, Tønsberg, Tumulus, ..., Tune ship, University of Oslo, Valknut, Völva, Vestfold, Viking Age, Viking art, Viking Ship Museum (Oslo), Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde), Viking ships, Yngling. Expand index (11 more) »

Agder

Agder is a historical district of Norway in the southernmost region of Norway, roughly corresponding to the two counties (fylker) of Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder in present-day Norway.

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Anders Hagen

Anders Hagen (15 May 1921 – 15 July 2005) was a Norwegian archaeologist.

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Appliqué

Appliqué is ornamental needlework in which pieces of fabric in different shapes and patterns are sewn or stuck onto a larger piece to form a picture or pattern.

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Arthritis

Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints.

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Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder

Åsa Haraldsdottir of Agder (died ca. 834?) was a semi-legendary Norwegian Viking Age queen regnant of the petty kingdom of Agder.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a body of water and marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Western Asia.

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Book of Durrow

The Book of Durrow is a medieval illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Insular art style.

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Bow (ship)

The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

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Bygdøy

Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway.

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Clavicle

The clavicle or collarbone is a long bone that serves as a strut between the shoulder blade and the sternum or breastbone.

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Clinker (boat building)

Clinker built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building where the edges of hull planks overlap each other, called a "land" or "landing." In craft of any size shorter planks can be joined end to end into a longer strake or hull plank.

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Cloisonné

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.

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Færder National Park

Færder National Park (Færder nasjonalpark) is a national park in Nøtterøy and Tjøme in Vestfold, Norway.

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Gabriel Gustafson

Gabriel Adolf Gustafson (8August 185316April 1915) was a Swedish-Norwegian archaeologist.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Gåten Ragnarok

Gåten Ragnarok (lit. "The Riddle Ragnarok") or just simply Ragnarok is a 2013 Norwegian action adventure film about the legendary story of Ragnarök.

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Gokstad ship

The Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway.

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Gospel Book

The Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels (Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον, Evangélion) is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the roots of the Christian faith.

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Grave goods

Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are the items buried along with the body.

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Haakon Shetelig

Haakon Shetelig (June 25, 1877 – July 22, 1955) was a Norwegian archaeologist, historian and museum director.

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Halfdan the Black

Halfdan the Black (Old Norse: Halfdanr Svarti) (&ndash) was a ninth-century king of Vestfold.

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Haplogroup

A haplotype is a group of genes in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent, and a haplogroup (haploid from the ἁπλούς, haploûs, "onefold, simple" and group) is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor with a single-nucleotide polymorphism mutation.

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Haplogroup U (mtDNA)

Haplogroup U is a human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup (mtDNA).

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Harald Fairhair

Harald Fairhair (Old Norse: Haraldr Hárfagri, Norwegian: Harald Hårfagre, (literally "Harald Hair-pleasant"); 850 – 932) is remembered by medieval historians as the first King of Norway.

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Human sacrifice

Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual.

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Insular art

Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, is the style of art produced in the post-Roman history of Ireland and Britain.

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Karve (ship)

Karves (or Karvi) were a small type of longship with broad hull, somewhat similar to the ocean-going knarr cargo ships.

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Kristin Halvorsen

Kristin Halvorsen (born 2 September 1960) is a Norwegian socialist politician.

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Kurgan

In English, the archaeological term kurgan is a loanword from East Slavic languages (and, indirectly, from Turkic languages), equivalent to the archaic English term barrow, also known by the Latin loanword tumulus and terms such as burial mound.

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Lotus position

Padmasana or Lotus Position (पद्मासन) is a cross-legged sitting asana originating in meditative practices of ancient India, in which the feet are placed on the opposing thighs.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Oseberg tapestry fragments

The Oseberg tapestry is a fragmentary tapestry, discovered within the Viking Oseberg ship burial in Norway.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Osprey Publishing

Osprey Publishing is an Oxford-based publishing company specializing in military history.

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Outlander (film)

Outlander is a 2008 independent science fiction-action film starring Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman, and written and directed by Howard McCain.

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Ship burial

A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Skeleton

The skeleton is the body part that forms the supporting structure of an organism.

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Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery

The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century CE located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk, Eastern England.

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Stern

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail.

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Steve Noon

Steve Noon is a British illustrator, born in Kent, England.

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Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, is the site of two 6th- and early 7th-century cemeteries.

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Swastika

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon from the cultures of Eurasia, where it has been and remains a symbol of divinity and spirituality in Indian religions, Chinese religions, Mongolian and Siberian shamanisms.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tønsberg

Tønsberg is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Tune ship

The Tune ship (Tuneskipet) is a Viking ship exhibited in the Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) in Bygdøy, Oslo.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo), until 1939 named the Royal Frederick University (Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet), is the oldest university in Norway, located in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.

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Valknut

The valknut (coined from Old Norse valr, "slain warriors" and knut, "knot") is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles.

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Völva

A vǫlva or völva (Old Norse and Icelandic, respectively; plural forms vǫlur and völvur, sometimes anglicized vala; also spákona or spækona) is a female shaman and seer in Norse religion and a recurring motif in Norse mythology.

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Vestfold

Vestfold is a county in Norway, on the western shore of the Oslofjord.

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Viking Age

The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.

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Viking art

Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavia and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the 8th-11th centuries CE.

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Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)

The Viking Ship Museum (Norwegian: Vikingskipshuset på Bygdøy) is located at Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway.

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Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde)

The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingeskibsmuseet) in Roskilde is Denmark's national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period.

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Viking ships

Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, built by the Vikings during the Viking Age.

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Yngling

The Ynglings were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty, originating from Sweden.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseberg_Ship

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