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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 October 1908, Page 1

urn; tt- . recent discovery in Norway of a Viking funeral ship, said to be at least 1100 years old. The vessel, which is 70ft lons and 15ft Gin broad, was dug out of a tumulus two and a-half miles from the shore, on the farm of Oseberg, near Tonsberg. It was not intact. At some remote nenod, probably hundreds of years ago, it had been unearthed by unscrupulous visitors, who had pillaged the mortuary chamber of many of the curious relics undoubtedly deposited there in accordance with ancient Norse tradition. But in other parts of the ship, which had apparently escaped the notice of the sacrilegious intruders, was found a large and extremely valuable collection of historic remains, including ■ a four-wheeled-chariot, richly and quaintly decorated, four sledges, three of them curiously carved, several hods, lintels, a mill, spinning wheels, and a variety of kitchen utensils. A dilirent examination of these had led to the conclusion that the funeral ship belongs to the ninth century.

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