Gokstad, Tune and Oseberg were seagoing ships before being taken ashore and used in funeral rites for their wealthy owners around the Oslo Fjord. In the tombs, the archaeologists found some of the Viking Age’s richest tombs. At the Viking Ship House you will see the ships and skeletal remains, beautiful wood carvings and objects […]
In 1721, the missionary Hans Egede sailed from Norway to Greenland on a ship called Hope, searching for Scandinavian farmers whom Europeans had not heard of in 200 years to convert to Protestantism. He discovered iceberg-dotted fjords that led to gentle valleys and Silver Lakes that shimmered beneath the great ice cover. But when he […]
