Museum of the Viking Age
Viking-era museum of ship burials, carved sledges and grave treasures from royal mounds.
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This guide to the Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo starts with a small cross-legged figure on a bucket handle, made by monks in the British Isles and buried in a Norwegian ship grave in eight thirty-four. It asks how a monastery's craftwork crossed the North Sea, and who could claim it once a farmer's spade found it again in nineteen oh three. Stand close to the Oseberg bucket while you listen.
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