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The Oseberg Wagon was one of several means of transport that were found with the mid-10th century Oseberg ship burial. The wagon is intricately carved with scenes on all its sides. The back of the wagon features at least ten cats, possibly relating…

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The Oseberg Ship would have been steered with an oar fitted to the starboard side of the ship, just like other Viking Age ships.

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This reconstruction gives a chance to see the stem ornament on the Oseberg Ship up close.

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The Oseberg ship is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It was found in a grave mound at Oseberg in Norway with the remains of two women, and with a large amount of grave goods. These photos show it from the stern.

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The Oseberg ship is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. It was found in a grave mound at Oseberg in Norway with the remains of two women, and with a large amount of grave goods. These photos show it from the stem.

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This Viking Age dog collar was found in the Oseberg ship burial. It is made of leather with metal fittings.

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The logo of the Viking Ship Museum on Bygdoy in Norway

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The memorial to Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad who discovered the Viking Age site at L'Anse aux Meadows. The memorial is outside the Viking Ship Museum in Bygdoy.

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The Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo has six axes with bronze fittings on their shafts in its collections. The axes all date from the last part of the Viking Age, and there are photographs of them in the museum's online collections.

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The Källunge weather vane from Källunge, Gotland, Sweden was once on the church there. It is decorated in a transitional Mammen/Ringerike style.

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A selection of Viking Age swords on display at the Kulturhistorisk museum in Oslo, Norway.

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The website of the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo which includes a Viking section

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A video that shows the process of making a reconstruction of the Langeid axe. A shorter videos shows the same but in English.
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