Posted on 02/25/2005 12:31:47 PM PST by franksolich
Viking ship cracking up
Eperts are worried about one of Norway's national treasures. Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.
The archaeologists have been carefully going over the nearly 1,200-year-old ship, and are concerned about what they see, reports newspaper Aftenposten.
Removal of the vessel's top deck has revealed some exciting new details, like graffiti from the Viking age and details of the ship's rigging. But it's also exposed cracks that make archaeologists worry the ship won't tolerate any move to new quarters.
There have been plans afoot to build a new museum near the site of Oslo's first buildings east of downtown. The so-called "Middle Ages Park" already features the remains of ancient churches, albeit built after the Vikings ruled the waves.
Experts will spend the next several months trying to measure the ship's strength. Removal of the deck will allow the vessel to be scanned electronically. A 3-D drawing can then be made to help give the archaeologists an accurate basis from which to measure the vessel's structural capacity, Knut Paasche of the Vikings Ships Museum told Aftenposten.
White glove treatment
Working from cranes suspended over the Oseberg ship, conservationists have been using white gloves to carefully remove more than 100 deck parts without setting foot in the ship themselves. Their work is a far cry from that done in the 1950s, when workers went on board the vessel and even used a vacuum cleaner to remove dust.
Paasche described work during the past week as "incredibly difficult and somewhat risky." It's also been thrilling. None of those doing the work had ever seen the underside of the ship's deck.
They've seen signs of tools used on board the vessel when it was made for the burial mound of two women in the year 834. They've also found new decorations, that now will be photographed.
Viking researchers from all over Scandinavia are expected to travel to Oslo while the work is underway, to see the ship in an entirely new light.
His kidding.
How can anyone have anything againt the Poles.
A people who names their currency slutty, got something going for it... :-)
Seriously, I love Poland.
Cheers.
Do you know that President Bush is the first American President to acknowledge Leif Erikkson day, to commemorate American-Scandinavian relations.
GWB is a friend of the Vikings :-)
How am doing posting all aqauited up?
Halden. How cool... Do you know where I was today, and where Karl Rove comes from?
Halden.
Cheers.
You are doing OK, except for spelling 'aquavita'. LOL!
You're doing good, sir, as usual.
You're never not.
I just got--two minutes ago--an e-mail from the lovely Beate at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C.--apparently Harald and Sonja are coming this way, next week, with a state dinner with Bush and all that.
Since the 100th anniversary isn't until June or July, I wonder if this is too early.
When Margrethe II of Denmark showed up in Nebraska in 1976 (I was not around, but heard about it), the highways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, and village pathways of Nebraska were jampacked with people wanting to see her.
I am not aware she went anywhere else but Washington, D.C., and Nebraska--she came here because so many of your own elder brothers, the Danes, live here.
I think I shall write the lustrous beauty Beate at the Royal Norwegian Embassy, suggesting Harald and Sonja put Nebraska on their itinerary; I am sure I can dig up maybe, perhaps, ten or twelve Norwegians in Nebraska.
Kidding of course, but it's Friday night.....
ping
real deal :
http://pro.lookingat.us/Vikings.html
my original forgery :
http://www.angelfire.com/un/zap/NightAttack.html
I found the Norwegian border guards; I hope someone there can read English.
That Norwegian currency and customs web-site, just like the newspaper Aftenposten, has one of the best layouts I have ever seen, when it comes to web-sites.
Uh, three suggestions, given what has been going on in Norway recently: (a) the regulations against using helpless women for money-making purposes should be also in the Georgian language (not our Georgia, the other Georgia), besides English and German, (b) the regulations about alcohol and tobacco should also be in the Polish language, besides English and German, and (c) the immigration rules should also be in Libyan, besides English and German.
Just a few suggestions.
Bump.
Sorry must have missed something here. Help we with my math 2004-1200 = 804.
Was there an "English" identity in the year 804?
To save you the trouble, the Norman Conquest (1066) was not for another 262 years. And we all know that William I was nothing more than the offspring of a displaced Viking tribe.
That was corrected at nearly the start of the thread, madam; I had done sloppy mathematics, and apologized.....way back at the beginning.
Yes, but did you apologize enough? ;-)
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Very interesting post.
I have seen this ship in person! The story as I recall it is that the ship sank within minutes of being launched.
This was due to a very poor design flaw that made the ship capsize and sink!
So much for the legend of the Viking ship-builders.
The English ship Mary Rose was the one which sank soon after her launching.
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