The Gjellestad Viking Ship is rotting away

[@MagnusItland]

As a Norwegian, I am glad this was uncovered in an age where we have the technology to fairly accurately reconstruct it, even if we can't preserve it. As long as we have the imprint of the ship and can see where the various parts belonged and what they were made of, reconstruction is probably the best path forward here.

[@ironwolf2244]

I hope that what is left can be preserved. Much appreciated for the video.

[@spikewillow4552]

I hope they manage to preserve whats left, thanks for sharing brother.

[@Greye13]

It is sad to see such wonderful things from the past decaying into time. I am hoping they will somehow be able to preserve what is left. Many blessings.

[@COLOMBIADOBLEZERO9]

This video is amazing, is the excavation done?

[@garychynne1377]

thank yew skjalden. good sailing.

[@brianredban9393]

Why no documentary on this??

[@Andersen1307]

Tusind tak for dine altid fremragende videoer. Krydser fingre for resterne kan reddes. Men det et stort arbejde. Godt der findes folk der elsker det😁.

[@brianredban9393]

Were are the artifacts that were buried in the ship. Wasn't it a viking grave??

[@christineb.w.1480]

Even if the ship is in a bad condition it is really exciting that there has been found another viking ship (or the remains of it) in Norway after such a long time -the last one before was the Oseberg ship in 1904/1905 - more than 100 years ago! I really like your Danish accent - but I fear that I´m one of really few Germans who could understand that you mentioned the Ladby ship because you pronounced it with your Danish tongue. ;-) Kaerlig hilsen fra Tyskland

[@cipriantodoran1674]

Nice and informative! Thanks for this post!

[@eduardoesteban9823]

Great video, very interesting, as always

[@Skjalden]

Thank you Eduardo Esteban

[@parapsychologist5402]

Wouldn't be nice to find one preserved totally in ice.

[@parabot2]

Don't forget Lindisfarne like other Christan Monesteries / Churchs where just fowards base's to undemine the native European cultures and our spiritual path . The propaganda that they where just weak priests etc is just that , Propaganda .

[@ICOWBOYIM]

Sad but true! Churches are known to do good to themselves. Only human greed and glutinous nature prevails in them when the world is on 🔥. Pilfering the poor and weak minded of life's goods to line their pockets and build their temples. Funny, Jesus Christ never had a temple, just his chosen place at his chosen time.

[@asburycollins9182]

Nonsense

[@Thesortvokter]

No doubt christianity is an invasive religion. Norsemen never tried to forceably convert people into the norse faith. Christians did though, as in Norway f.i. Convert or die. Christianity is a religion of Satan, the opposer.

[@truxton1000]

@@asburycollins9182 The attack on Lindisfarne was probably a revenge for french forces earlier attacking Denmark, taking 25.000 prisoners and chopping the heads of them all. The intention was to spread Christianity to the nordic countries. The huge surge in military activity from the vikings was a result of "attack is the best defence". And when this went very well it became profitable and useful to attack the Christians, of course churches and monestaries were targets. That the Christians in return described these attacks to be "barbaric" is just another result of propaganda.

[@hakanpersson6524]

Does the norwegians care more about there results in different kind of sport activties then of there historic heritage ? As a scandinavian neighbour one must wonder. They spend a lot more money on sport arenas then to preserve there unique historic artifacts. They should do the opposite !

[@colinp2238]

I think that you will agree with me that the people use the ground for their needs, and this is natural, so we cannot criticise them for destroying the archeology. We must be grateful for anything that survives for so long, that we can trace it, including the imprints of the "stolen" axe. We, ourselve are guilty of grave robbing as we remove artefacts for study and display, for we are robbing the future archeologists form seeing the artefacts on site. We cannot judge historic people through 21st century eyes using 21st century morals. Thank you for the video, as always.

[@Skjalden]

Of course, people need to eat, and farming is part of that. It is also my experience, that the farmers always contact the local museum if they stumble upon something while working in their fields. Yes we are guilty ourselves, but we do need to dig it up at some point, else we risk it disappearing. I think it is fine that we try to preserve it, even if our technology could be better, and even if we should have waited in some cases. The grave-robbing that I have a problem with, where those in the Viking Age, where their enemies plundered their graves, removed their bodies, and tried to erase them from history. The Ladby ship in Denmark could be an example of that.

[@colinp2238]

@@Skjalden History is always a case of perspective and i am not criticising your comments just voicing my opinion that too often we are too judgemental, me included.

[@colinp2238]

@David S. We really have very little idea of what happened and the reasons why but we assume that we do. It's quite arrogant really, I mean we cannot imagine what people went through during WW2 as we are too far from that way of life and that is not yet a century away.

[@molotulo8808]

Can't you just make a new ship? It's a pile of rotten wood...build a new ship !

[@truxton1000]

Yes this is of course been done many times. Last example the Myklebust ship that was found some years ago, but just the rivets, so from this the ships shape and size was copied when they recontructed how the ship would have looked like. Can be seen in the Sagastad museum in Norway, on the west coast.

[@nozomutsubasa3803]

69 likes, NICE