Boat grave from the Viking age discovered in Kvinesdal, Norway

NIKU reports having found a Viking age boat grave along with traces of several other grave mounds.
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[@Doomfruit]

Thanks for bringing this information to us in English and with your valuable insight! Best of luck being there for the dig!

[@dlewis4283]

Very informative, please keep us updated.

[@mikewojnar6254]

Thanks for the translation! Great stuff.

[@celiareno1479]

I’m really enjoying your videos. Thank you for your hard work.

[@NorseReign]

Thanks Celia!

[@dominicconnor3437]

This is so awesome! Thank you for the translation and I know you will keep us updated on this. Love your channel keep up the good work.

[@donbelen886]

love your channel, keep up the good work and give us the update on this excavation.

[@NorseReign]

Thanks! I've been having a hiatus from posting over the summer, but I'm back with new videoes shortly. Regarding the boat grave, they still haven't decided wether or not to dig.

[@kerik6380]

I somehow missed this article, thanks!

[@NorseReign]

Doing a follow-up when there's some new info!

[@Ravynwulf]

Hi, I like your channel, I have subscribed and really hope that you continue making videos…Thank you. 🐺

[@randomfactor3599]

My last name is McClure, my grandparents are from Ireland, Cork to be exact. Now, in America. Recent research has lead me to my ancestors being Viking. My last name means, Ordar/Ohdars followers. Unfortunately I've yet to find out exact who Ordar/Ohdar was. But the research says he was more than likely Viking due to Eastern Ireland and the Isle of Man being Viking owned at the time. Was wondering if there is anything on your end about this?

[@dohayala3851]

very nice house sir

[@philmcfarland8228]

Any update? From the states, Kansas City Missouri here! Very interested to hear more

[@NorseReign]

Hey Missouri, what's up? I haven't heard any news yet, but I'll keep you posted!

[@TimKnutsen]

Cool. Would you expect to find metal tools and weapons here?

[@NorseReign]

It’s likely that there will be some artefacts in the grave, yes. What artefacts depends to some extent what kind of person was buried. Weapons are very common, so it’s a good guess we’ll find some. If it’s a warriors grave, it’s likely to find several weapons. In comparison, we found a lot of tools in the grave of a Viking age blacksmith a couple of years ago.

[@faadar]

I subscribed . Hopefully you have some good contacts to participate from near or from far as the case may be . Good luck

[@NorseReign]

Thanks! Yeah, hopefully it won’t be too difficult!

[@stevemuggridge3587]

Hi from 🇨🇦! Have you ever heard of L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland? 1st Viking settlement in North America....500 years before John Cabot discovered the New World. Great channel so far!!

[@NorseReign]

Absolutely! I will go there one day and check it out!

[@mwj5368]

Hi Steve! I know you're asking because of Norse Reign and his heritage, but here goes... Two of my sisters tested 27% Scandinavian and 17% Irish so maybe some Viking in me ha! I never heard of L'anse aux Meadows until in October of '89 I was hitchhiking In Newfoundland and the road ended there. I just saw the town on my map and thought it must be an interesting place. All of Newfoundland is that way ha! At the time I think the guy working at the fairly new Viking settlement interpretive center said the road to there was only about 2 years old. Oh, at least at that time... there were still older people angry about when Newfoundland was no longer it's own country and became part of Canada in I think it was 1947. Anyways, this man even let me sleep in his basement where he had built his 39 foot fishing boat, I think a "long-liner". He had big doors at one end of the basement to roll out the boat once he was finished. For breakfast we had toast with delicious jelly his wife made from some rare berry that grows there. It's very scarce and he said you'll find one berry every 10 feet. He had to go to work at the interpretive center and told me to go to the local harbor and two brothers would be there and they would take me in their boat to see his docked there. The brothers looked in their 40's and were there not expecting I was coming but were there because something of the sea, like looking across the Straight of Belle Isle to far-off Labrador dressed in purple hue, was ever in their eyes, and you would never have to ask them when and where the Viking Age began. They laughed and joked almost continuously like that was the laughing way they were high tide or low. Their accents were so strong I didn't understand 85% or more of what they said, and they were still very funny. We jumped in their boat and laughed over the motor drone and encircled that man's ship. It was not an open boat and had a pilot's cabin and who knows, maybe a sleeping quarters below deck like the "long liner" I was on out of Harbour Breton in the far south coast where we fished just off the shore of France, "France", a local joke I'll leave up to you with a two-brothers laugh ha! You could feel the pride in that man's basement-built ship that penetrated to the core like their cold sea October. Those brothers had a very big open boat, modern and probably of aluminum, and a big new outboard motor, but their anchors were ancient looking, and ancient too like their hold, their sea-ful grasp of things. They were a tall cage made of bent branches with rocks inside and flukes also made of branches. I made out between laughs and thick accents something about in the shallows along the far-off Labrador there was an on-going excavation of an ancient Basques whaling ship. It was amazing to read the story about the discovery of the Viking site there and a picture of all the archaeologists that arrived for a special conference of some kind that was I think hosted by National Geographic. I was the only one walking through the big sod Viking designed structures re-created so very well, and not sure when the last Minnesotan had been there. I must stop, a very bad habit of verbosity... there's too much to tell, but I have to say the brothers' laughter could uplift one high, blue, and in pure white cresting. Something of L'anse aux Meadows, once you go there, stays with you, wraps around your shores.

[@codewordslinkydog]

@@mwj5368 thank you for your story

[@mwj5368]

@@codewordslinkydog Hi! Thanks for your complement! I love Newfoundland, all that country! I have a bad habit of getting verbose, but get excited when I start talking about Newfoundland. This guy picked me up from Corner Brook a city on the west coast. He was proud and took me to a high overlook of the city that had a big paper mill and ships came there. He was proud that Cook had been there. He talked of a place he had never been, remote, on the south coast, where his father was from. His father had left in I think it was the 1930's. A new highway was made for the first time, so he went to his roots. Some elderly men there were excited as they remembered his father and said, "Well! You're Young Herbie's boy!" They called his father "Young Herbie" I think an adaptation of a very old way people were once named. Centuries ago in Europe people would have a name like "Herbie the Younger", and another way was attaching their village name. An author I like who wrote, "Candid", he was French and his name was "Voltaire de Ferny". He had a sense of humor as he was sort of Christian. So he had his crypt or tomb half inside the Christian church of his area and half outside ha! I better stop as it's happening again ha! Thanks!

[@codewordslinkydog]

@@mwj5368 I have a last name like that it was Heiden German meaning heathen then was change when the family came to America they were farmer's the cool thing is we had farm land in Staten island New York

[@larsandtherealworld5054]

Interesting news. I wonder... When are you going to talk about Holmgang?

[@NorseReign]

Is this a challenge?

[@larsandtherealworld5054]

@@NorseReign Yes. Do you accept the challenge? 😁

[@NorseReign]

@@larsandtherealworld5054 Lars, I like you to much to accept.

[@larsandtherealworld5054]

@@NorseReign I hope you mean accept making a video ABOUT holmgang, and not us fighting in a holmgang 🤣🤣🤣

[@codewordslinkydog]

will there ever be a point when there is nothing else to find.