BREAKING NEWS - First Viking Ship Excavation in Norway in 100 years // Gjellestad Boat Burial
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Hey guys, Welcome to Archaeology News. Fascinating revelations from Norway!! Let me know what you think in the comments & any suggestions of sites I should look at.. & don't forget to subscribe to our new channel where me and my brother David (Voices of the Past) cover the entire history of the earth! th-cam.com/channels/_aOteuWIY8ITg7DQQspG1g.html
Fascinating! What else could describe such historical brilliance. Archaeology is our only key to the past. Please keep up your magnificent work. Thank you for this new enlightenment. Bernadette from Oklahoma
I hope you don't mind but I'm sending this video to another TH-camr that is interested and covers related topics. His name is Arith Harger and he is a Portuguese archeologist.
Where can one find LIDAR maps to browse?
This was found years ago. No breaking news here
@@rabbc007 any reference ?
Yes, and they are doing the excavation in my hometown!! I live 5 min away from the site and im going to follow and watch the digging at Gjellestad :D Cant wait!!!! :D
Elin The Shield Maiden-Skjoldmøy your the luckiest person in the world 😊
It was found by a guy from my hometown, Harestua :) I was under the impression they were not going to excavate it, but super exciting if they are!
Do you know if they have started yet?
Are you a Moroccan? I've never met a Scandinavian in Scandinavia online before, they're always North Africans who pretend they're Scandinavian until someone calls the out for having a strange accent.
@@Erik-zd2oi Yes they have started.. if you go to Gjellestad.no you will see the exacavation.. Im going on a tour next week with my team. :)
This is such exciting news!! I've been fortunate enough to tour Norway, and the Viking artifacts are mind-boggling in their beauty and sophistication. I'm psyched! Thanks!
Got all three channels- they're outstanding. Truly looking forward to all the future content.
Thanks!
This is absolutely fascinating! I was born in Oslo in 1957 and immigrated to the US when I was 4, I love my Norwegian heritage and I love learning more and more about it, I will be following this story and am very excited to see it's complition.
I always enjoy your story telling and the edification . ❤
I am an Archaeology student in Oslo and my class recently went on an excursion to the excavation site. It was amazing even though the ship is severely decomposed. The excavation has a facebook page that posts updates on their findings. I recommend checking them out. The page is called The Gjellestad Ship Excavation.
The quality and craftsmanship of the artifacts - from the golds to the weapons to the wood carving - is simply jaw-dropping. Hard to reconcile the rough-and-ready popular image of the people with their exquisite belongings - like having Jed Clampett producing a Faberge egg...
They are often depicted as wearing leather and burlap, covered in mud and grime. However they have evidence and know what the many vikings wore. The civilians, and probably the warriors when at home not fighting, wore wool mostly, dyed bright colors. Many wore hats that came to a point, but only gradually coming to a point, so the hat would curve back doing a 180 and the tip would touch their backs.
If it hasn't already come up in your recommendations yet, I urge everyone to watch Fall of Civilizations series on TH-cam, specifically on the Greenland Vikings, but they're all awesome
I've watched a few. The Maya, Khmer, Sumerians, Han Dynasty... they were pretty interesting. I liked them.
Voices of the past is a great channel also. This guy mentioned it is his brother's channel which reminded me of it. He reads very old documents. Documents from ancient Greece, ancient Carthage, Rome, ancient China, etcetera. One was a Carthaginian document describing an expedition down the west coast of Africa. They have Roman documents talking about China, how to get there, what it is like in China, and all the cities and people you would run into on your way there and back. A Chinese document describing Rome, what it was like, and how to get there. The channel has 110 videos so far. It seems like he would run out of the oldest ancient documents and have to begin reading more recent documents until he is reading letters home from soldiers in the Confederate Army.
What beautiful landscapes! Just awesome! Would love to come and visit and explore! Thanks for the share!
Pete, thank you for bringing us this most fantastic news ! I am waiting with baited breath for you to bring us the results of this excavation. The Vikings have been a source of fascination for me since childhood. You never dissapoint, and that's a fact ! 😊😊
Love your video. Spent 2 weeks exploring Norway. Absolutely beautiful country.🇳🇴
Fantastic discoveries on this channel excellent
Thanks for proving that 1 person or small group of people, can produce watchable, high quality content. League's better than anything on "History Channel" and about real history.
You are a credit to civilization, leaving it better with you in it.
14min ad for a dig, where can I see current, non waffling, info about this latest ship? Thanks.
Gjellestad is located between Swedish border Svinesund and Sarpsborg..Borg was the first Norwegian capital and todays renamed Sarpsborg. Gjellestad actually belongs to the distrikt of Halden Town today but the location of Gjellestad is a couple of hundre meters from the sea which has sunk since that time. Gjellestad is at the start of the little fjord named Skjebergkilen, which is the sea side of todays Borg, Sarpsborg. The Viking capital 👼The Tune ship was also found in Borg.
Your voice makes history sound even more interesting.
Or just more _sensational_
I think that I would prefer more of his normal speaking voice and a little dial-down of the dramatic voice.
Yes it certainly does add a depth to the narration. Much preferred to droning on while reading off a script. He sounds more like an ancient story teller who uses vocal techniques to generate a more interesting story. Don't stop your style!
I have seen the ships in Oslo....really impressive, and amazingly well preserved!
The photo at 2:30 is from the Edøy ship, in Smøla. Found with georadar in 2020
I recognized the voice right away. Subbed on your history channel. Thank you
You really do amazing work, i'm loving your videos. I live in a small town on the west coast of Norway, we have 2 burial mounds here in the town center. we also have 3 stone columns we call Bauta stones. in 2019 we finished a viking museum called Sagastad, with a hand built viking ship that's possible to launch on the fjord. It's called Myklebustskipet, and it Is the largest viking ship ever found, 30 meters, from year 700. It's also the latest burned burial ship found. Burning them in the burial was common in the west.
Apparently medieval folks didn't loot these mounds fearing they were plague pits - mass burial sites for victims of the bubonic plague, and if they dug them up the virus would recirculate.
Thanks for sharing that info from your town! When I had my DNA analyzed a few years ago, my information came back and started with "you can be certain that you are of Viking descent!" I live in U.S. in the state of S.C. and have been able to trace my ancestry back to the Scandinavian area.
Very much looking forward to developments as they dig! Please do keep us updated!
Another great post! Thanks for sharing!
I can't imagine the excitement of finding a artifact like this, must be one of the greatest feelings in the world
Very exciting news! Makes me wish I was an archaeologist - discoveries like this really spark my curiosity! Great video!
Subbed to all you channels now!
Nice job I love these types of documentaries and was happy to subscribe to your channel. I enjoy 18th century re-enactment but the Viking age is so rich in history.
"LIDAR is being used to penetrate deep under the ground"
"Larger intact mounds cannot get be penetrated"
LIDAR doesn't penetrate soil. It maps anomalies in the reflectivity of the surface soil at certain wavelengths.
Excellent, thank you Pete.
I subbed to all of them!
Other famous viking shipbuilders like Floki are having their creations found! So awesome.
Lidar is not the same as ground penetrating radar. Lidar is an amazing technology but cannot penetrate the ground. Laser light is completely blocked by objects. It would be helpful to accurately represent the techniques used in this geophysics discipline.
@@country928 from another article online: "The discoveries were made by the archaeologists Lars Gustavsen and Erich Nau from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) with technology developed by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro)." see their site at: archpro.lbg.ac.at/ This paper introduces the group. www.academia.edu/29725949/The_New_Ludwig_Boltzmann_Institute_for_Archaeological_Prospection_and_Virtual_Archaeology
While I am sure that aerial imagery, lidar where also used, geophysics in this project also includes GPR(ground-penetrating radar) & magnetometer surveys which can image into the earth.
@@NoHandle678 The Ground Penetrating Radar in the video, that was an essential part of this amazing discovery, was however developed by MALÅ, part of Guideline Geo (www.guidelinegeo.com).
How many people it took to drag that ship there and bury it. And none of them went back to dig up and steal it's treasure. That's a lot of respect for someone. ..
In my home Denmark, we have found several ships in water, as shown in the beginning, and have been able to preserve some of them in museums. Also the longest ever found, by far!
Only during planning, on a board! When You start operating large fleets of viking ships, I think to remember I was told during a Lecture by a Danish popular Historian: Palle Lauring, that a full "Danish Warship Leding", to be claimed by the King, was around 4000 ships, and ten times as large as the similar Norwegian Leding, which was never claimed in full! But the Danish Leding was claimed several times during the attacks on England! The last time by the rather unfortunate King Knud/Canute IV of Denmark in 1086, when he had collected his fleet around the large Aggersborg circular fortress in north-Jutland/Limfjorden - but he couldn't decide when to order the attack! And at last his Chiefs got tired of waiting with all their collected men and started hunting Knud and his few Faithfull men, amongst those also a Bishop, til they ended in - Sct. Albans Church on island of Fyn, where Knud claimed "Sanctuary" in front of the Altar in the church! But real vikings didn't care about such nonsense, so they killed him, with all his men, in the church! You may still see his bones, as also his Bishops bones in two coffins in the Crypt below, both with a glasstop! But the church was appalled and soon "wonders" started to happen by his coffin - so he was declared a "Saint", though he most certainly didn't deserve it, as the only Danish King! So now we have a King named: Knud den Hellige!
A very well done work, showing the viking age. I really enjoy when the things are so well done,
Norway have probably the finest collection of Viking ships in the world. Let us hope that they can manage to get the money from
their parliament to build a new museum in Oslo. The one they have is old and not so well suited for the ships. This is not only a matter of the norwegian people but to the rest of the world. We must protect those unique ships for the future.
@bob bobben york is the viking centre ! 100% yorvick in great britain ! skal !!
I drive past this site all the time its right by the highway in halden. There are runes all over the place in sarpsborg, around 500m from my house there is 3 big burial sites
I have to admit I was not a history buff and probably still wouldn't consider myself to be one, in general, but there are certain topics that really interest me, thanks to some tv series or movies I've watched in the last cpl of years, like the beginning of the Anglo monarchy which is related to the Vikings as well, all that era definitely intrigues me and I happily read or watch documentaries about those topics so I'm glad I came across this video and subscribed already and will check out the other channels as well. Look forward to finding out more about the ship which will be worked on starting next month already, it's exciting.
Another winner Pete!
Hallo,Peter,
did you consider doing a video about Haithabu,now in Schleswig-Holstein,north Germany,in early Middleages one of the most important international trading places of Vikings along Birka in Sweden?
There is a museum there,near the town Schleswig.They reconstracted some Viking houses,gardens and part of the port.The museum has many informations about everyday life,trading,they even have a part(?) of a ship.
very interesting. thanks for posting.
Are you of the famous Gamst genus? I am, too, on the mother side👍
*Why are some people dissing this?*
What do you want from him?
*Check out this old Viking Ship*
They just found it in Norway!
...The End
I just learned so much.
So I just subscribed.
Thanks, Pete!
Thanks for making these! Your channels are all really fun to watch, I also sometimes just listen to them in the background like a podcast while I play games, keeps the brain from getting too mushy! lol I saw a longship when I visited Finland, though I'm not too sure if it was a real one or a reconstruction?! It was at Seurasaari, an open air museum. If you ever visit during the summer months, there are nice public "beaches", so bring a bathing suit (OR NOT! They also have a nudist beach. lol) for a cool dip in the Baltic!
It’s a bit frustrating the focus on the Gilestaadt (sp) ship was pushed to the last four minutes with broad information about other sites filling the 14 minute episode. So, have they not dug into the mound yet at all?
This is gonna be fun! I can't wait to see what they dig up!
Great work man
There was one discovered In Halden- Østfold (Viken). And one like 10 meters away from a huge Viking grave near the highway from Halden to Moss.
I was just excavating TH-cam and I discovered you, what a wonderful find! !!!!!
Been watching this like a hawk. Hopefully they can get the fungus out of the wood
@Bill Rayvan fungus makes penicillin, it kills bacteria.
Bleach works!
And my feet!
The Oseberg ship is concidered the most beautifully crafted ship with elegant lines form front to end, and beautiful carvings. It is much more elegant than the imagined ideas of Viking ship. This ship seems to have been made to express elgance of a form maybe thought non-typical of the sterotypcal image of Vikings. The Gokstad ship was a different type of ship, more take a trading cog that could carry a lot of cargo.
I live just a few km from the largest grave mound in Northern Europe. And there are more than 1500 mounds in my municipality alone. Great finds are still being made. Just 20 mjn drive from Oslo.
Just fascinating Peter. Thank you sir
Looking forward to this. I live here in Halden and have visited the area many times.
it looks so beautiful there
Absolutely fascinating, love history & discoveries of past lives. Thankyou for sharing. 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋 🇦🇺
Is there a live cam where we can watch the digs in real time??
Lidar cannot see below the ground. It reflects lazer off the ground, and detects variations in surface shape only being able to see through vegitation which otherwise hide things like mounds, cities and anything else which altered the lanscape..
In the nineteenth century my great grandfather carved a magnificent ink stand , from bog oak which came from a Viking ship dredged up from The Thames. A small piece of the wood was passed down to me, but unfortunately it went missing.The ink stand was presented to the King and Queen, and was in Buckingham Palace, l have a very old photo of it.
Great find!
Fascinating. I'm curious if there are trusts set up through the government's, concerning the location of these vessels, that would protect them? I am viewing from North America... Many of our ancestors came from these locations in Europe and so it is absolutely wonderful to see the preservation, and the care and concern put into preserving these archaeological Treasures.
Nope. Norwegian law states that it's the land owner's duty to pay for the excavation. Farmers especially hate this, since they own a lot of land and tend to find stuff as they cultivate their land.
Edit to clarify: the excavation itself must be paid for by the land owner, once the artrfacts are up it is up to whoever dug it up. This can be a university or museum
@@GreenMonkeyToaster yeah really sorry to hear that. I guess I would think that the archaeologists and museums would be interested in funding the Dig for the farmers, or to compensate them for the crop loss while the archaeology is being completed. I mean fair is fair correct? At least one would think so! Thanks for your input :-)
@@70stunes71 no problem :) seeing as Norway is socialist, it is more than fair to expect there to be some sort of system to fund excavations. It's all of Norway's culture and history, not just the finder. It's getting to be so bad that farmers aren't reporting finds, since once it is reported it's out of their hands whether it gets dug up. It is a real shame as there isn't a lot of archaeological evidence from our history pre plague
@@GreenMonkeyToaster I haven't looked into our laws in general on this, but this particular find has been granted 15 million norwegian kroners to be dug up. How and where it will be preserved is yet to be determined.
@@GreenMonkeyToaster Wtf are you talking about 🙄 You're not even Norwegian probably..
And we're not a socialist country lol
Wow! I can hardly wait for the dig!
What is the unique piece of wood where the mast joins the hull?
I live in 🇺🇸 USA. This is amazing history. Some native Americans did burial mounds but the age and size of the Norseman mounds remind of pyramid burials in Egypt.
Thank you Pete. What an exciting dig this is. It's not often that mounds are excavated nowadays and I heard that in Sweden they started to melt down Viking age finds cause it's thought they know enough now about Vikings. SHOCKING!
No one is melting down finds! Quit spreading lies!
In Norse times, this was part of Denmark.
It,really just seems like things on all excavations are coming around them everyday this makes us wonder how much is still out there waiting to become once again found! Thank you, Nick.
ANY written record , that predates Roman influence, would be WAY COOL!
Womt be if its viking era
The Vikings raided and stayed in Ireland. Hence the names Baile Átha Cliath and Corcaigh come from the Vikings.
I am proud of my Irish ancestry.
don't you mean your Viking ancestry?
Irish history include the Celtic but most of both Scotland and Ireland were settled by Vikings. You are just our distant cousins over there.. lol
northumbria are all big viking settlements ! 100% yorvick here ! my maternal & paternal sides go back to norway ! sweden !denmark !with 1% jewish ! my dna went back to the 8th & 9th cent vikings from norway !
we landed in york from norway ! still here & settled !434,000 4th cousins also matched our dna 92% great britain ! still here & thriving with a very old viking bloodline ! skal ! valhalla rules!!!
funny seeing this, since the Gjellestad Burial is located just 300 yards away from where the house i grew up in is located. Always wondered what type of treasure laid beneath the earth there..
Haha “harsh landscapes breed hardy people”. I mean in a way I’ll take it as a compliment as I’m Scandinavian, but who else laughed out load? Love the dorkiness! Need more of that in this world
Thanks for this! Amazing news!
The state of this ship is not good, but it is anyway a very interesting site to look in to. Let´s hope the government don´t stop after the 15 million NOK they have offered without any follow-up plan. The older ships already at museums aren´t taken care of as they should either.
Why is that, do you think? Is it the museums fault? Or the authorities/government?
@@MrInsaint I believe it´s a combination of the fact that the people here in Norway expect the government to fund it all and don´t have a tradition of looking at it as a source of income - and that the authorities don´t realize the historical value of the ships further than a way to show off to the world what great ancesters we come from. As long as it looks good and bring people in, the real state of the artifacts and their scientific importance is a matter best left over to the next politicians. No one seem to want the glory of taking action, and no one wants the legacy of spending millions on these old relics. Let´s wait for the next election and in the meanwhile we can be cosy around the wast bondfire of oil industry and poisenous fish farming and pretend we are in front of everything because we have such a full bank-account if it ever gets serious.
@@sjurgabriel Spot On, Hasselgård. The best explanation I have ever read, I appreciate it. And skål🍻
- I am of the same opinion as you, thank you for reply👍
I remember when there were Viking excavations here at Spangereid in the mid 70's and I think it was students who did the work. Not professional. I need to check the memory plate.
@@MrInsaint probably trying to put the viking past behind ? because of their reputation ! we in great britain are proud to be norsemen & built our beautiful boats to cross the very rough , foggy sea ! north sea ! & they never let us down ! skal !
There were two viking ships burials digged out in Estonia, Salme in 2008 and 2010. Google for Salme Ships. Also very fascinating.
Cant wait to see more.
I thought you said "Nooooh way!" And then I thought you were gonna say something like "guys, theyve just dug up a massive viking SHIP!!!"
The youtube notification cropped the thumbnail of this video and I thought it said "First Viking Shit Excavated in Norway"
@Ken Shearson damn bro, why you gotta be so serious all the time?
Fun fact: They've actually excavated 1000-year-old viking poo from York, England amongst other artefacts. Saw it on a tv documentary. Apparently people from then suffered from parasites in their intestines...
@Ken Shearson idk man it's pretty funny if you're not so uptight all the time.
@@JZ-gs5wk Ken is the universal arbiter of humor, what is funny or unfunny is ultimately decided by him
I take a steaming viking shit everyday and flush it down the toilet never to be seen again.. If only I knew I could have profited off of it 🤔
Would the areas these ships have been located been under water back in ancient times? Or would they have just been buried under ground like these days. Burying a ship sounds crazy but I wouldn't be surprised so if anyone knows thanks.
What’s the status of the dig?
Interesting video. Looking forward to the examination of this find. A small correction: lidar, which uses light, does not penetrate the ground; it produces a 3D map of surface features. Radar or seismometery are required to image structures underground.
LIDAR does not penetrate the ground, it is pulses of laser light, and of course laser light cannot penetrate soil and rock etc. It is used to virtually strip away surface detail like trees and vegetation etc.
Li-dar has been around for over a decade. And they’ve been able to use satellite imagery to see deep into the ground since 2015. The PBS documentary, Vikings Unearthed, illustrated all this in April 2016. I’m surprised they aren’t making wider use of it, since they can see several feet into the earth from the satellites and know exactly where everything is, how far down, and what’s in with it (generally) before they even dig.
Hello Paul, how are they able to see the fungus if they have not started excavating ?
They dug a test pit and retrieved a sample of the timbers...they found that the ship is in a very fragile state.
Vikings where living in alot of countries to name some new Zealand American Norway the list goes on.
They where the biggest exporters back in the day
A few notes:
Viking age is not referred to as "early medieval" in the North. Medieval times start several hundred years later in the North than in the rest of Europe.
"Roman times" is a very strange way to refer to it. There were never Roman armies in the North. And the area has been inhabited far longer than "Roman times"... as soon as the ice retracted the area was populated.
6:00 Oseberg ships in this picture show many lacking parts, that are present in the ship exposed today at the museum. I wonder if that parts were located at excavation site and then placed in the ship or if it is the result of some historically supported "guess work"
Awesome!
Does anyone know what was in the ship?
... but SAS says there's no Scandinavian culture...
Good thing there are channels like these. Good stuff. This is from someone who doesn't know much about this thing as I grew up on the other side of the world.
Haha fuck SAS. I love that the airline Norwegian made fun of SAS after that commercial.
Scotland and Norway in a week.
Excellent.
They have found another one at Jarlsberg outside Tønsberg. Still in early stages of evaluation and geoscanning I think.
Including the Sutton Hoo finds clould be said to stretching it a bit. It’s Anglo-Saxon pre Viking age, form early 7th Century while the Viking age in Britain ‘starts’ in late 8th century.
(Lindisfarne 793 cannot have happened on the vikings' first visit; you don't organize a raid like that on the off-chance you might see a monastery you like.)
Lidar is what many of assumed would’ve been invented a long time ago. 🤔😶 Wonderful documentary, beautiful images .
Curious about how long will it take to retrieve it from the earth ?
Does anyone know if or where I can buy a piece of a Viking ship ?
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Big fan of your work! If you are also the narrator you have an epic voice! Else you can settle with epic historian!
So cool to learn about the past but also so disturbing that the world has been consumed in war and fighting since day one.. kinda sucks that nothing has changed..
June is just around the corner! Please keep me updated, we need the truth.. just as in the tomb of Tuthankaten!
It'd be fantastic if they found a helmet - the only intact one we have is from Gjermundbu and it'd be fascinating to see whether that was the predominant style or not.
It was people here before the iceage as well. We have a lot of stone circles and a starfort, wich is from the ancient global civilisation.
I love learning about my people. 🥺
Where do you get your info