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 to a new analysis. When you purchase through links on our ...

The Gokstad Ship, which will be open to the public in 2027 in the new Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo. Jan Bill, an archaeologist at the University of Oslo and curator of the Viking Ship ...

Jan Bill, an archaeologist and curator of the ship collection, has studied the Gokstad ship in detail, including trying to learn more about the man who was buried in this beautiful ship.

Kottmeier based the plans on the ship he built in Vancouver, which was a replica of the Gokstad — a 78-foot ninth century Viking ship unearthed from an ancient burial mound in Norway in 1880.

And I heard you have a boat here, as well, do you? >> We have a large model, a quarter model of what was called the Gokstad ship. The Gokstad ship was discovered in 1888, and they were decided to ...

The scene has echoes in other well-known Viking ship burials like the Gokstad ship, which was built not long after Gjellestad vessel and is now on display in Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum.

The Viking ship is an exact copy of the Gokstad, built about 850 C.E. at the height of the Viking Age. The Gokstad was found in a burial mound near Sandefjord, Norway, in 1880 during an excavation ...

"The larger ones are comparable to other buried ships we've found at Gokstad and Oseberg," two other sites with burial mounds in Norway. Rødsrud estimates that the ship was between 49 and 75 feet ...

Originally built in 1892 in Norway as a replica of the ancient Viking ship Gokstad, the craft sailed to Chicago undergoing what the Friends of the Viking Ship group said was “an incredibly long ...

A land burial at Gokstad in southern Norway in which a 60 ... The well preserved parts and fastenings of the ship made an important contribution to our understanding of Viking boat building ...