Tag: Viking ships
Norway finds another Viking ship
On an open field along the Oslo Fjord, among grave mounds from the Viking Age, archaeologists have found what they believe is another buried...
Viking ships seem saved after all
Norway's newly expanded government has specifically mentioned in its new platform that a new museum to house the country's famed Viking ships will indeed...
No funds for new Viking ship museum
Norway's government was once again being accused on Wednesday of allowing the country's Viking heritage to rot. State budget negotiations failed to provide funding...
Fourth Viking ship called ‘sensational’
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a Viking ship, burial mounds and Iron Age homes right next to the busy E6 freeway near Halden...
Viking ship tied up in bureaucracy
A full-scale copy of Norway's famous Oseberg Viking ship, which has sailed around the historic city of Tønsberg for the past five years, is currently tied...
Viking ship needs sudden bail-out
A replica of a Viking ship managed to weather the often stormy seas of the North Atlantic this spring to triumphantly arrive in North...
Another Viking ship arrives in Canada
There's been a rash of Viking-ship construction projects in Norway in recent years, and one of the end results made it to Canada this...
‘Viking Age Museum’ starts taking shape
A new safe harbour is rising around Norway's famed Viking ships, arguably the country's most precious national treasures. State officials unveiled the winning designs on Tuesday...
Plans laid for new Viking ships museum
Norway's Ministry of Education has directed state building agency Statsbygg to start planning a new and expanded Viking Ships Museum on Oslo's Bygdøy peninsula....
Viking ships lose out to Munch
Two of Oslo's most traditional tourist attractions, the Viking Ship Museum and Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy, are reporting declines in their numbers of...
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