Viking Ship.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13697, 12 September 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

Viking Ship.

VALUABLE FINDS An interacting communication war. mad<to the Paris "Academic d«& inscriptions et Belk&-Letti*s" by M. Gabriel fSustafsua, curator of the ChrKtuuia Mv.i.um. on July 18th cencerning tk iv.eut «I>s covery in Norway of .» Viking fun«ral ship at ka-it I.IOU years »«ld. Its. mortuary chantber contaitb the bonn. »f two wonmi who, judging from tin* si;<- . f and the elab- of ii.-» :ipfK,ai! m*atx, evidently b>longrti to i»>nK> n«'b!>and wealthy family. The voaiel which i"« seventy ffft l"t»g and sixteen feet s»ix incite* bn>ad. w.«« out of a tumnlu.l, t*» aini a hall tnil>s> {rom tbw» *hoi>», on the farm of o<ebcr£- r>-ar Tooaberg. The ttvj*ure waf, u<»t mti. t At some remote period, probably hun.lr><i« of y«us ago. >t had k>« o tiiwart h-<1 hy unst-rupulous victor* . nho tud the mortuary chamber of many of th«- < ur iotts tvlic* undoubtedly de|*rtit.-d th* re tn tcv'ordaiK'e With jtKi<nt Non,e tfiiit ion.

But in other j»rt« «:>f the t.hip. whi.-h b*l apparently th- •• ..f if,.aairifcgicua intruders. »\*% tumid » l.r-j;* *a«l •xUviu.'ly valiutl* . :,..n »< h.lofie mnAinv including a i.iur <* i ctmioC, richly and •itivntiy f«ur ofalgce, ihr**» of tb«m i urn.ii.l) art •*}. ocreial hriN-'tf. .* null. . j'ir.n ni? wbfr-'U. arul a rarkty of kit.bcn ui.-isi'-: A il»ljg«nt examination «.< h<« i- ? t» jh«-, c»>nctu«oij that tb- futj-rt! «h |. Lrlooe* to th* 9th o«-ntury • >»«. t \ in that tb* r*cond *om>n w., t . a r.Ure w.ri d-'tnortl to accompany h«r mxt r--% , fi h>>r la«f eWp. Many of the ornament*. rri i.f ,rv •dwood. aw anu]t>e. Th«- »i>.p m i tt* ■Craag* cargo, constituting on?- of :!>•■ m<> i important jkrrhaeologk.*! " «-r Bkui* in Scandinavia. after Iw-ing ]y rinHowd. will b« pLu?«ti m tbv Ohr*.s.A pi* SloMam.