Archaeologists
believe now that they know have found an important Viking grave from the
900-century under a gravel road in Nordfjord in Norway.
The Viking fever
is spreading across the world's oceans at the moment. Recently it has been an
enormous international interest for the Viking age. For instance the French
magazine "Le Monde" nominated the Viking Olav Tryggvason among the twelve
greatest heroes in year 1000. Also well know magazines as National Geographic,
Der Spiegel and Time have published extensive articles about
Norway's
famous forefathers.
Image of a Viking
Arkeologisk
Institutt (Archaeological Institute) in Bergen is in charge of
the mentioned project. They hope to start digging on the other grave mount
already this year. It all started after a causal found in August of weapons as
axe, sword, spear and shield. These weapons belonged to a "Viking officer" from
the 900-century. The archaeologists also found other interesting items in the
grave.
The grave they
opened previous month was a "secondary" grave. They expect to find more
interesting things in an another burial place beside, which lays under a gravel
road in the middle of the area. Already in the 1960`s archaeologists excavated
similar graves by the farm Indre Henne. Now archaeologists stands ready to
explore more on the farm called Ytre Henne.
An exciting
excavation waits for us, says the Norwegian Archaeologist Soren Diinhoff to the
Norwegian Newspaper Aftenposten. Is there any big treasure there from the Viking
age? Will they find more interesting remains from the Vikings in this area?
Stein Morten
Lund, 9
September 2000
Additional
information and related links:
Read more about
explorations from the Viking age on our web site: Interesting explorations in
Belarus:
Remains from the
Vikings found Read more (click here
)
Read more about
the Vikings life in East
Europe on other web sites
("Vikings in
Russia Archaeological treasures from Staraia Ladoga and
Novgorod").
http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dml0www/variagi.html
Other
interesting links:
http://www.viking.no/
http://www.control.chalmers.se/vikings/indexframe.html
http://www.valhs.org/
http://www.pastforward.co.uk/vikings/
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