Constructed entirely of oak the total length the ship is over 70 feet long, 16 feet wide and 6½ feet at her deepest. With a crew of ca. 35 her displacement may have been over 11 tons.
| The most unique find from the Viking
Age is the Oseberg-find. Second in size to both the Gokstad and
other ships found, but second in beauty to absolutely none. Oseberg is the most
magnificent discovery ever made from the Viking Age. |
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Built around 820 AD, the
Oseberg longship was excavated in 1904, from a burial site in Vestfold, Norway. She
was reassembled and placed in a hall outside Oslo Norway in theVikingship Museum. Constructed entirely of oak the total length the ship is over 70 feet long, 16 feet wide and 6½ feet at her deepest. With a crew of ca. 35 her displacement may have been over 11 tons. |
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