2-693-595 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Oseberg ship in the mound, showing the carving on stem and railing', 1935. The Oseberg ship is a well-preserved Viking ship which was buried c834 AD, although the ship itself is thought to be older. It was discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Norway. From A History of the Anglo-Saxons, Vol. II, by R. H. Hodgkin. [The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1935]