Archaeologists Finally Excavate The Oldest Viking Ship Burial Mound Ever
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- čas přidán 28. 12. 2023
- Do you want to learn about a remarkable archaeological discovery in Norway? A 1,300-year-old ship burial that predates the Viking Age! In this video, we will explore the history and significance of this ancient burial practice, and how it reveals the culture and beliefs of the people who lived in Scandinavia more than a millennium ago.
We will also discuss the mystery of the person buried in the ship, and the possible candidates for their identity. Was it a legendary king, a Merovingian noble, or a local chieftain? And what does the ship burial tell us about the maritime culture and the trade network of the people of Leka?
Watch this video to find out more about this fascinating discovery, and how it challenges our assumptions and stereotypes about the Vikings, who were not only raiders and plunderers, but also inheritors and innovators of a long and rich tradition of ship building and ship burial.
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We have known this was a ship burial. In 1786, much of the mould was excavated of soliders from the Danish-Norwegian king, looking for gold and silver. They found nails from a ship (in archeikigucal terms, a "ship" is 12 meters or more long, a "boat" is shorter than 12 meters), and timber from a burial.
It has been dated to around year 900, but now it seems to be around year 700. As said in the video, this fills a gap between the Vendel and Sutton Hoo burials (around year 600), and the Oseberg and Gokstad ship burials (year 834 and 901).
The importance of this dating is that the buried "king" must have been a mighty man, and his wealth must have come from his startegic position on the Norwegian coast, where he had control over the trade from (and to) the northern part of todays Norway. The trade from the nortern part of Norway must have been founded lenger bach than we belive today.
This "chieftain" controlled the trade north-south, and was called the king of "the ourter part", "Ytri Halfa", of Namdalen. The trade east-west, from Medelpad in Sweden to the coast, was controlled by the chieftains of the inner part, "Efir Halfa", where the river Namsen meet the fjord. We have many grave moulds along Namsen, the 3 moulds at Bertnem (40 - 50 m diam.) looks like the moulds in Uppsale. It has been ment that thev are too earley for ship burials, but the new datings from Herlaugshaugen, Leka, may indicate that they arer ship burials. And they are not disturbed by grave robbers or "amateur archeologists".
where's the part about excavation?
Valsgärde here in Sweden has the earliest ship graves here in the north. At the beginning of the 600s, the first boat burial was held at the site.
But you can see the ship culture up here already in the nordic bronze age. The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship.
But is any of the ships at Valsgärde sail ships or only for rowing? If the Leka ship is of the viking era ships, from what I have understood, the archeologists said that they had to prove it was quipped with a central pole for sailing in order to change the timeline of history. I have not heard a conclusion yet.
@@pappelg2639 It has existed sail ships up here atleast since the nordic broze age. You can see them at the petroglyphs from the nordic bronze age.
Greetings from Sweden.
@@BirkaViking Strange. The Oseberg ship, built in 820, is the oldest ship with sails that we so far have found in northern europe, according to the museum it is in. From what the archeologists and researchers know, there is no other proof for earlier sail ships. The stone carvings we have here where I live in Norway, show petroglyphs back to around 8-10,000 BC. They do not show sails, but people on the boats. I have read a lot, but never heard of petroglyphs that old that are depicting sail ships. Maybe you could give me a link? I am not saying you are wrong, but all the experts and archeologists in Norway say the opposite ;) Maybe they do not accept carvings as proof, if there actually are such. The Leka find is from 700 so if they find that it sailed, that is a ship 120 years older than the last.
@@pappelg2639 You can see the petroglyphs in my Nordic bronze age video.
Dont trust main stream so called historians.
Our history is so much greater then what they teach today. But you must know where to look.....
@@pappelg2639 My answere to you seems to have disappeared ?
You can see the petroglyphs with ships and sails at my nordic bronze age video.
The pc culture in the west dont teach proper history to no one these days.
But our history up hear in the north are far greater then you can even imagine.
He who seeks will find in the end :-)
Cheers from Södermanland
The helmet at :50 seconds into the video: notice the symbol of the bird flying downward with its head as the nose, eyebrows for wings, and tail going up. At the same time this image is also a plant, with the eyebrows turning into vines and the birds’ tail being a stem growing upwards. Symbols of rebirth and societal growth also seen in Asia and the Mediterranean.
thank you,well done
Thanks for watching!
Interesting but I was expecting to see many pictures of the actual site . Do not forget the Egyptians also practiced the burying of ships . :O)
you can never say 'ship burial' enough
Sutton hoo is the burial site of a Saxon king.
Close he was an Angle king of East Anglia cheers
Viking ships have been found that are 1500 BCE and from central Russia.
If it pre-dates the viking age, then how can it be viking as the title suggests.
That dude sure had a big noggin!😳
Why bury a boat that just seems like way to much work , i thought they put the dead in a boat and floated it out and used a flaming arrow all the time, but i guess i was wrong
Sutton ¨hög¨ mound = scandinavian - backbone of English is from costal Norwegian (väst norsk) all other theories are nonsense
Yup Good Ol' Camels of the Seas
Your accent is English. England has switched to the metric system. I do not know how much 23 feet is. At least you could have the decency to ALSO mention the sizes in metric (decimal) system, for the 8 billion people who are not Americans or English Brexit voters. I fully understand that it is much easier to calculate with 5280 feet to a (n English) mile and so on than with 1000 metres to 1 kilometer. I give you that, but please be polite to the 8 billion people on this planet who are not toffs, wannabe toffs or Americans.
The Merovingians ruled in parts of Scandinavia?? WHISHFUL THINKING!!
I live in Norway, and know about its histoty, and never heard of any "Hurlock, a legendary King of Leica", and no place in Norway named Leica, like it said in the translated text. Where do all this nonsense come from? Even the click bait image of the buried ship is just a modern fantasy drawing that is not a real Viking ship.
propably means Leka.
"Pappelg" is right, it is Leka, and the burial mound is called Herlaugshaugen, and the king was king Herlaug.
So a mistake to rely on the CZcams translater to get the names right.
However, the English speakers are usually very bad at pronouncing names in any other laguage than English..
Takk til "pappelg".
@@hedgehopper9055 I am not so sure Herlaugshaugen really is the burial mound of Herlaug. Not if it is from the year 700. According to Snorre Sturlasson Herlaug and his brother Rollaug lived at the same time as Harald Fairhair, and that was much later. And the mound was actually not linked to Herlaug until late 1700? I don't know. It is interesting anyway.
1st off, there were no such people known as the "Vikings". It was an act of raids and commerce. 2nd, the Norse were most farmers with some livestock raising. That is why the Norse went to Britton, to get land for their expanding populations. 3rd, the Norse were not the Norse. They were actually, initially, Celts as the Celts migrated west from the East-Indies. That culture then became the Slavs, the Vandals, the Angles and the Saxons (who initially invaded Britton right after the Romans left), who then became the "old/original" Scandinavians. 4th, of course the burial ships were ceremonial! But many times they were functional ships before the passing of that Chieftan or King. 5th, there were extremely few "kings" of the Scandinavian countries. 6th, you never once talked about Denmark which was one of the three main Norse countries with Finland being the 4th. Get your facts straight.
well stated
Well aren’t you the special one Mr. Rudeness.😖 You have just got to be a joy to live with. 😏
Nothing worse than a rude smart arse! 🙄
Hmmm…somebody has too much time on their hands. Why are you watching instead of creating your own content?
There's nothing like being a DICK!!!!
Vikings didn't come from Europe.
Where did they come from?
West asia@@1Nida
MEXICO !!!!!!!!!!!
Minnesota 😊
Of course they did….
Britain was home for the vikings not europe sutton hoo proves this.And many other burials..