This museum has 4 actual Viking boats - they were recovered from burial sites around Sweden. I always thought that Vikings burnt their dead but apparently this was not the case with very important people. Each boat had its own story that was told. In each case a prominent person had been placed in a wooden hut constructed on the deck of a Viking ship. Placed in with them were many valuable goods designed to help them sail across the chasm to the after life - eg a servant, dogs and goats and fish, horses and their assorted harnesses, whole sleds and wagons, weapons, tools, sewing implements, jewels, food etc. Anything that person may need. The whole boat was then buried inside a huge burial mound. The buried boats were often ransacked at some stage after their burial. However, at one of these burial sites the boat was discovered in its original condition and a treasure trove of antiquities was recovered.
So interesting, the burial mounds must have been huge. I cant help but worry and wonder about the servant, dog and goats and other things that went along with the owner though.
Hi Ko, Caterina, 4rky,, Casablanca, Marnie, Suzanne, Lesley, Taffy and Louise - thank you all so much for your thoughts and comments and I'm pleased the info was OK. It was so interesting to see and the influence of the Vikings has been visible in many places that we visited after the Viking Museum - so it was really useful to us. As Suzanne commented - the dogs, horses, peacocks and servants were a sad thought - good thing that things have changed since then... And Marnie - the surf boats used by the lifesavers obviously owe a lot of their design features to the Viking ships!! @madeinnl@caterina@4rky@casablanca@golftragic@suzanne234@rosie00@taffy@roachling
Looks a very aerodynamic design (or whatever the equivalent is for water). And love the interesting narrative
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