Viking boat museum

They were actually three Viking boats at this museum. All of them had been used for burials. Some had been made just for burials but others had sailed for a while and then reused as the final resting place. Each boat was found within a burial mound. The workmanship on the boats was amazing. They were larger than I had anticipated and the best preserved one is a thing of beauty.  This had been used to bury two women perhaps of noble birth. A lot of grave goods were buried as well including 6 dogs, 15 horses, 2 cows,  sleighs, a wooden cart, utensils and 5 elaborately carved animal head posts.  One of the other boats had 12 horses, 8 dogs two goshawks, three small boats, a tent, a sleigh, kitchen utensils, a harness for a horse and two peacocks. It was speculated that the Peacocks were souvenirs from their travels out and abroad.

I have no idea how I was able to get this picture without people everywhere.  This boat was build in the year 820 AD and was sailed for 14 years at least.

There's fine detail on the whole end of course there are people in the background

The carvings are beautiful but then when you think about this being over a thousand years old it is mind-boggling

There be dragons on that there keel

I tried the panorama setting on this picture

They had elevated sections on each corner of the building so that you could see the boats in their entirety

Such a graceful arc

Makes me want to study these boats in  more detail, were ropes wrapped around this, was this how they bailed at the bottom of the boat??

Detailed carvings all the way to the top

A less preserved boat from 904. But had been known about since 1867

Not much left of this boat

Nice audio visual display 

Pictorial of a voyage

The wagon

I recognize this guy

It seems like the monsters are always eating someone

One of the carved animal heads a Dragon

A big cat head 

A sleigh 

So very intricate 

I see a corkscrew so I know these were my ancestors