Tag: Viking ships
Viking ships to stay berthed at Bygdøy
Norway's famed Viking ships won't be moved to a new museum that some historians and city officials have been promoting for years. A new...
Viking ships stay berthed on Bygdøy
Norway's authentic, famed Viking ships now seem unlikely to leave their berths in the Viking Ships Museum on Oslo's Bygdøy peninsula, following a decision...
Viking ship sunk near Shetland
A replica Viking ship known as Dragens Vinge ("The Dragon's Wing") has sunk on its way from Norway to the Shetland Islands in Scotland,...
Viking ship not just ceremonial
For years, it was widely believed that the ancient Tune ship on display at the Viking Ships Museum in Oslo was used mainly as...
Full-scale Viking replica to be built
Volunteers are aiming to complete and sail a full-scale replica of Norway's famed Oseberg ship, one of the best-preserved and most celebrated Viking relics...
Viking ships stay berthed, for now
Plans to move Norway's precious Viking ships from the existing Viking Ships Museum in Oslo to a new, proposed museum on the other side...
New images may yield Viking ships
Archaeologists think they have found two more Viking ships buried in Vestfold County south of Oslo. The biggest may be 25 metres long, larger than any...
Viking ship for sale
Ever wanted to sail your very own Viking ship? A family in Norway's historic whaling port of Sandefjord is offering one for sale, an...
Great ‘museum shuffle’ plays on
The government minister in charge of building a new museum for such national treasures as the Viking ships and medieval artifacts was supposed to...
Viking ships likely to stay put
Plans to move Norway's national treasure, the Viking ships Oseberg and Gokstad , to a new museum on Oslo's eastern waterfront probably won't sail....
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