Monday, July 7, 2014

Viking Ship Museum


The rain is definitely coming down hard today!  Opting for an indoor day we chose the Viking Ship museum, which is located on the Bygdoy peninsular about a 15-minute drive from our house.  The museum in an old church and is home to 3 Viking ships plus other Viking artifacts.  All three ships were grave ships that had been buried.  Vikings used to bury important people in ships with supplies like ox, horses, berries, grain, ship equipment and house hold supplies to give the dead person everything they needed to journey to the world of the dead, they believed dead people still ate food! The ships were from the 9th century and had fantastic carvings on them.  We were also surprised to see a few sleighs that were also covered in carvings, but it does make sense that much of this part of the world is covered in snow and ice for most of the year.  There were tools, shoes, shipping equipment and much more.  We really loved this museum, it was small but really interesting and different from all of the other museums we have visited.     

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