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	Ship burial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ship burial of Igor the Old in 945, depicted by Heinrich Semiradski (1845-1902).
		A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself.
		Ibn Fadlan gives an eye-witness account of a 10th century ship burial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ship_burial (134 words)

	Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
		But it's the ship burial found in mound (1) that really catches peoples attention and imagination Though not the only ship 'burial' in England, it certainly is the richest, and not just in England, but also the whole of Europe.
		Ship burials and the inclusion of personal items, like jewellery and weapons in graves, was very much a Heathen custom.
		Ship burials have also been found in Sweden that date to roughly the same period in time.
	www.homestead.com /englishheathenism/textshipburial.html (658 words)

	Ladbyskibet - A Viking Burial In A Viking Ship West Of Kerteminde On Funen - Pictures Of Denmark
		In 1934 the mound containing the viking ship grave was excavated North of the village of Ladby on the island of Funen.
		It is not the ship itself that is on display, but rather the impression of the planks in the ground, as well as the actual spikes that held the ship together.
		The chieftain was buried along with all the things a viking chieftain could be expected to need in the afterlife, including a ship, a varied weapons arsenal, 11 horses and several dogs, some of whose skeletons are still present inside the viking ship.
	www.picturesofdenmark.com /ladbyskibet-vikingship-funen-denmark.html (427 words)

	Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Oseberg ship was found in a large burial mound at the Slagen farm in Vestfold and excavated in 1904.
		The ship was built in around 815-820 A.D. and had been used as a sailing vessel for many years before it was put to use as a burial ship for a prominent woman who died in 834.
		The Oseberg ship was in all probability intended to be used as a royal pleasure vessel for sailing along the coast.
	www.khm.uio.no /english/collections/Viking_ships/oseberg.shtml (333 words)

	shipburials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ship burial Storhaug lays where the passage Karmsund is at its narrowest, and the mound must have been an impressive sight for those coming into the bay by ship or boat.
		The king or chieftain was buried in a ship that was between 24 - 27 metres long.
		The ship burial Grønhaug is situated by the farm Haugo, close to the Karmsund, and when Grønhaug through Carbon 14 method was dated to around 930, it has been suggested that this mound can be a possible burial for Harald Finehair.
	www.karmoyped.no /avaldpros/forsking/shipburials1.htm (690 words)

	Hurstwic: Norse Ships
		A war ship was a valuable item, not only for the prestige and monetary value that went to her owner, but also for her utility in future battles.
		Some ships were built with wood salvaged from earlier ships, as evidenced by the Skuldelev 5 ship (which has been described as a "coffin ship" because of its poor construction and low level of seaworthiness).
		Ships were beached at the end of the day, avoiding navigational hazards difficult to see at night, and allowing a cooking fire to be safely kindled.
	www.hurstwic.org /history/articles/manufacturing/text/norse_ships.htm (4889 words)

	Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
		The artefacts found in the ship burial suggest a very close cultural and religious connection with the people of Sweden, but rather than being the same people it's more than likely that they just shared in the same culture.
		Ship burials have also been found in Sweden that date to roughly the same period in time.
		In this poem we read about another ship burial, this time at sea, which is extremely similar to the Sutton Hoo one in it's description and grave goods, but whether they are connected isn't sure.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /textshipburial.html (658 words)

	Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
		Ship burials and the inclusion of personal items, like jewellery and weapons in graves, was very much a Heathen custom.
		The reason for this is because no actual body or remains were found, which could suggest that the burial was a 'symbolic' one, maybe the intended was lost at sea or in battle.
		But it's the ship burial found in mound (1) that really catches peoples attention and imagination Though not the only ship 'burial' in England, it certainly is the richest, and not just in England, but also the whole of Europe.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /shipburial.html (744 words)

	The Sutton Hoo Room
		According to Encyclopedia Britannica, "The burial, one of the richest Germanic burials found in Europe, contained a ship fully equipped for the afterlife (but with no body) and threw light on the wealth and contacts of early Anglo-Saxon kings; its discovery, in 1939, was unusual because ship burial was rare in England" (Brtannica).
		The ship also contained 37 coins, three unstruck coin blanks, and two small ingots, all of gold.
		The Sutton Hoo ship further displays both master craftsmanship and major technical innovations such as a fixed steering position and shorter and narrower planks for more flexibility.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projs4a/sutton.htm (259 words)

	Ships and the Vikings - historic ships, wooden ship models, wood ships, scale ships, handmade ship models, handcrafted ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For voyages of trade and settlement the foremost ship was the broad-beamed knorr, designed to carry trade goods and livestock.
		Ship of the Goksted type with mast and sail lowered.
		The shallow draft of Viking ships, whether ships of war or peaceful trade, was ideal for getting close inshore on open beaches.
	www.exp-china.com /shiphistory/ship_and_vikings.htm (447 words)

	Oseberg
		To avoid damage to the delicate ship, it was transported on rails from the center of town to the harbor.
		From there the ship was moved onto a float, which carried it across the fjord to Bygdøy.
		The ship is moved onto the float for its last sea voyage to Bygdøy.
	www.khm.uio.no /utstillinger/oseberg/indexE.html (1124 words)

	Athena Review Vol.2, no.3: Dragon Ships and Viking Sagas
		It is particularly interesting that the ships that do remain to this day were buried, an intriguing practice which, due to its pagan implications, died soon after the Viking conversion to Christianity.
		The Gokstad ship was also recovered with the shields attached to the gunwale, at the ready for the warriors on board.
		The ship burial discovered in 1904 as Oseberg revealed itself as the grave of a noble woman of sufficient status to warrant a very lavish burial.
	www.athenapub.com /viksaga1.htm (1267 words)

	HOMEPAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Sutton Hoo ship was excavated in Suffolk, in 1939.
		It is thought to be an East Anglian king of the seventh century, King Raedwald, who died 624/5 A.D. Nothing remained of the ship except the impression of the hull and hundreds of rivets marking the plank runs.
		Buried silver in the ship was all made in the East Mediterranean: 3 Celtic hanging bowls, perhaps to hold water; a large scepter; plates.
	iws.ccccd.edu /andrade/BritLitI2322/suttonhoo.html (137 words)

	Sutton Hoo part 8
		Assuming a body was buried with the ship, we must now address the problem of who it may have been and what evidence we have to support it.
		A Saxon ship burial could never be accepted as Christian but as Pagan and hence this Saxon ceremony would never be sanctioned by the church.
		The Valsgarde and Vendel ship burials bear all the hall marks and similarities to Sutton Hoo.
	www.battle1066.com /sutton8.shtml (2285 words)

	Wolf Song of Alaska: The Disappearance of Wolves in the British Isles
		These genealogies were written in A.D. 800 and Wuffa is thought to have ruled about 575 A.D. In the famous ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, a purse was discovered; the lid was decorated with gold and garnets and decorations showing wolves confronting a human figure.
		The 37 coins contained in the purse date the burial as being circa 620 A.D. and not later than 640 A.D. No body was discovered in the ship burial though some archaeologists feel the depiction of wolves on the purse reveals a connection with the Wuffingas.
		It is interesting to note a later descendant of the Wuffingas is thought to have become "Bretwalda" or overlord, of Britain and it is possible that the ship burial at Sutton Hoo commemorates this descendant.
	www.wolfsongalaska.org /disappearance_of_wolves.html (1921 words)

	Ship Finds
		The ship had been built around 890 A.D. and later used in the ship burial of a powerful chieftain who died in or around 900 A.D. The dead man, a powerfully built man in his 60s, lay in his bed in a timber burial chamber (displayed in the Tune wing of the Museum).
		The Tune ship, from a large mound at Haugen farm at Rolvsøy in Østfold, was excavated in 1867.
		The ship was built and maintained to the highest standards, but were of some age when it was filled with hay or brushwood and deliberately set on fire in an attack on Haithabu.
	web.missouri.edu /~rls555/SCA/research/ships/ships.htm (3279 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ship, nearly 30m long, had been dragged uphill from the estuary of the River Deben to a royal gravefield and buried beneath a large circular mound.
		Amidships, in a textile-hung chamber, a sumptous burial was laid out unique in its glittering wealth of jewellery and unrivalled in the variety of objects that had been selected to represent every facet of the dead man's life.
		In this new edition of the survey first published in 1986, the excavation of the ship and its contents are described and illustrated and the results of many years' research at the British Museum are summarised.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714105759 (500 words)

	Viking Ships
		The ship was built in around 815-820 A.D. and had been used as a sailing vesssel for many years before it was put to use as a burial ship for a prominent woman who died in 834.
		Buried ships were placed deep in the earth with large mounds marking their places.
		The man buried in the ship was, in all liklihood, Olaf inn hviti, or Olaf the White, Viking King and co-ruler of Dublin along with Ivarr the Boneless, son of Ragnarr lodbrok and conqueror of two-thirds of the Danelaw.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/vikingships.htm (1439 words)

	Heathen Symbol Shields XII: Ships
		Ship symbols appear frequently in ancient Scandinavian rock art from the Bronze age, and remained a common motif through the Viking Age.
		In the Viking age important people were buried or burned in real ships, and there was a tradition in Scandinavia of making an outline of a ship with stones around graves.
		The ship was essential to to Northern civilisation.
	home.earthlink.net /~asatru/symbols/symbols12.html (385 words)

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		Only the hull of the Tune ship has been preserved, and the grave was robbed earlier of nearly all its items, but enough remained for us to see that the ship was originally of the same fine quality as the two others.
		A burial chamber was constructed behind the mast, where the deceased was placed to rest in a bed, dressed in finery.
		The Oseberg ship has a low freeboard and is less seaworthy than the ships from Tune and Gokstad, but it certainly could have managed a North Sea voyage and could be typical of the ships which were used for the first Viking attacks around the year 800.
	www.angelfire.com /or/svalin/OPW/VikerBurials.html (2388 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - British Burial Barrows: Viking And Saxon Boat And Barrow Burials
		Men were buried with grave goods and warriors with their weapons, while women were buried with grave goods of a domestic and possibly a healing nature.
		The burials were conducted after the pagan fashion but were laid out from east to west in the Christian manner, indicating that the individuals buried here were clearly of high status.
		At first there may seem to be no connection between horse and ship burials, but with the nobility it may have been to provide transport to the afterlife.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A18066152 (1259 words)

	longship_portal
		It is based on the small, 21' (6.5m), faring boat found in the Gokstad Viking ship burial, and serves primarily as a teaching tool easily transportable overland for exhibits, educational demonstrations, and historical reenactments.
		Later, converted back to its more usual appearance, the Fyrdraca became a funerary ship for the Arthur of legends set in late medieval times, in which mourning ladies of his court carried his body off to Avalon in some stunning sunset shots which were also used to depict the flight of Celts to Brittany.
		It is impossible to come away from even the briefest voyage on a Viking ship without a sense of connection to, and a much greater appreciation for, those medieval seafarers who ventured out in such vessels.
	longshipco.org (1439 words)

	The Ghost Ship of the Wuffings
		Her steerage was by means of a side rudder at the starboard ('steer-board') side of the stern, where an extra rib had been built in to take the strain of the steering oar on the hull at that point.
		The Sutton Hoo ship appears to also to have been sail-powered, even though no evidence of a mast was found in the excavation.
		The original ship was certainly old when ultimately used as a funeral-vessel, as could be seen from the patterns of rivets in places where the hull had been repaired.
	www.wuffings.co.uk /MySHPages/SHTreasure/SHGhostShip.htm (521 words)

	The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some time in the first half of the seventh century, a king was buried in a barrow at a place called Sutton Hoo in the kingdom of East Anglia.
		He was buried in the pagan style, in a large ship accompanied by extraordinarily rich grave goods.
		The goods from the Sutton Hoo ship burial are on display in the British Museum.
	www.engl.virginia.edu /OE/Tour/Sutton.Hoo/Sutton.Hoo.html (141 words)

	EBK for Kids: The Sutton Hoo Ship
		The ship had probably been dragged to Sutton Hoo, on rolling logs, from the nearby River Deben.
		Another ship burial had been discovered at Snape, only 9 miles away, in 1862.
		Viking ship burials have been found in Norway too; and there were other ship burials in the mounds at Sutton Hoo.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /kids/sutton_ship.html (238 words)

	Ship Street, Co. Dublin
		It formed one of a small group of five such burials known to have existed in the Dublin area, four of which were on the south side of the river and all of which are presumed to have dated to the 9th/10th century (Donnybrook, Cork Street, Kildare Street, Dollymount: O Floinn 1998, 144).
		In addition to this, the objects found with the burial at Ship StreetGreat may be considered indicative of a pagan burial rite, as these presumably represent grave-goods.
		The location of the burial close to the church of St Michael le Pole is also very interesting, as the excavations there suggest that, although the stone church was probably built in c.
	www.mglarc.com /projects/ship_st.htm (1238 words)

	Ship Summaries on Shvoong
		In ship motion stability, generally, capsizing occurs due to the following effects: loss in directional control such as in broaching-to; loss in stabi...
		Greenpeace''s anti-whaling ship Esperanza sailed into Yokohama port yesterday in a bid to provoke a debate in Japan on the issue of whaling, sever...
		This paper studies the impact the sailing ship had on the historic period between 1773 and 1815, the Anglo-French War.
	www.shvoong.com /tags/ship (278 words)

	Viking Ship
		The ship, excavated at the Oseberg farm near Oslo, Norway, in 1904, had been a royal burial place.
		Historians believe the Oseberg ship may have been the tomb of Queen Asa, who Gudrod the Magnificent, a Norwegian ruler, had abducted and forced to marry him.
		Should her ghost wish to travel, the burial ship had sailing gear, including a mast and a full set of 30 oars, as well as four sleighs and an ornately decorated cart.
	www.allscandinavia.com /vikingship.htm (441 words)

	Suspected Viking burial fills a hole in English history \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		The hoard dates to the 9th century, when burying leading figures in their longships was a high caste ritual.
		A collection of clinch nails, used on Viking longships, is the strongest clue to a ship burial.
		The ship burial found at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk in 1939 dated from the 7th century and contained the treasure of an Anglo-Saxon warrior, not a Viking.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1149750,00.html (479 words)

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