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Let's set sail from Denmark to England on the Hugin with door no. 17.

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The Viking shields found on the Gokstad ship in 1880 were not strictly ceremonial and may have been used in hand-to-hand combat, according t

Interesting.

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( so I started my first round of museums today. Walked 15km it total, but Gods was it worth it to see these giants. Honestly, this museum is so small, but you can just literally sit down wherever you want and just observe them in awe for hours. Not to mention, the gift shop was absolute torture, my littler sister had to drag me away from it before I would start buying books that don’t even fit my suitcase ... )

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The Gokstad Ship, 9th century

After the Gokstad Ship was excavated in 1880, it was on display in a shed in the University Garden in Oslo. In 1929, the ship was then transported (in two sections) using an artillery tractor from the Armed Forces, from central Oslo to Bygdøy. Once in place at the Viking Ship Museum, the ship was disassembled and re-assembled in the hall where it was to be displayed. The Gokstad wing opened at the Viking Ship Museum in 1932.

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The Gokstad ship

It was a flexible and sturdy ship, suitable for sailing on high seas. The ship was built in 890 AD, and used as a burial ship about 10 years later.

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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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The archaeological excavations of the Gokstad ship, a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound near Sandefjord (120 km southwest of Oslo, Norway) in 1880

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The bored Viking

What to do when you are bored at sea and you are sitting in a doldrums? One or two Vikings knew what to do because the outlines of a left and a right foot were found in the floorboards of the Gokstad ship. A Viking longship built around 890 AD, discovered in 1880 and housed in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.

The Gokstad ship, during the excavation 1880

Part of a floorboard with the right foot

Museum storage manager Hanne Lovise Aannestad with the highlighted right foot

The ship has been buried and used as a burial chamber, but the floorboards were not in place, so the researchers do not know whether the carvings were close together while the ship was at sea. Since the size of the foot was significantly smaller than that of a now living, 165cm tall woman. The owner of this foot seems to have been a young man, probably still in his teens.