The Oseberg Viking Ship is a miracle.  It is a jaw-dropping exception to the rule that wooden things dug up from the ground after a 1000 years are going to be in a bad state. Most Viking ships that have been excavated turn up a few scraps of timber and enough rusty nails to fill a bucket. And that’s it! The survival of the Oseberg Ship and its artefacts is quite simply miraculous. Its survival – so far. For the fight is on to try and stop the ship dissolving into a pile of powder.  This is the story of the flat-pack challenge from the 9th century that makes a TORNVIKEN kitchen island from IKEA seem like child’s play! CONTACT Twitter: @northbynorway Mail: [email protected] PHOTO Archaeologist Gabriel Gustavson and his excavation team standing in the Oseberg burial mound, 1904.  An artist is making drawings of the broken prow of the ship. Photographer : Olaf Væring. Owner: Universitetsmuseenes fotoportal. (Licence:CC BY-SA 4.0) LINKS https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/previous-projects/saving-oseberg/ https://www.khm.uio.no/english/visit-us/viking-ship-museum/exhibitions/oseberg/index.html https://osebergvikingarv.no/eng/ https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/the-viking-ship-saga-oseberg/201556/?lang=uk MUSIC 00:00  North by Norway  written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle, using the Norwegian folksong ‘I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn’ 03:12  Dronningen  written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle 09:55  Oseberg  written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle 14:05  Ja vel elsker dette landet  Norwegian national anthem, music by Richard Nordraak retrieved from Wikimedia Commons  For more details, visit the episode website at www.andrewjboyle.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.