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Oseberg ship (834)

On the Norse and Aztecs map as “The Oseberg ship”

834 — A great ship built around 820, 21.5 metres long with fifteen pairs of oars, was buried in a mound with two women and rich grave goods near Tønsberg. Tree rings date the burial chamber to the summer of 834. It is the best-preserved ship of its age.

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Type
Turning point
Chapter
Viking expansion and the longship (chapter 2 of Norse and Aztecs)
Atlas
Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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Map showing Oseberg ship (834), turning point in Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
TURNING POINT · CLIMATE AND INNOVATION: THE NORSE AND THE AZTECS, C. 790–1521

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