The Gokstad Mound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County, Norway. It is also known as the King's Mound (Kongshaugen) and is where the 9th century Gokstad Ship was found.[1][2][3]
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^Hjardar, Kim and Vegard Vike (2016). Vikings at War. Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC. pp. 140, 147. ISBN 9781612004549.
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The GokstadMound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County,...
The Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. It is displayed at the Viking...
original working order. GokstadMound, site of the discovery of the 9th-century Gokstad Ship. Gaia ship, replica of the Gokstad Ship docked at Museum's...
museum in Europe dedicated to whaling, and is home to GokstadMound where the 9th-century Gokstad Ship was discovered. Sandefjord has numerous nicknames...
around 500 AD. Gokstadhaugen a burial mound in Sandefjord, Vestfold, revealed a ship burial containing the Gokstad ship, a Viking era ship dating to the...
Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway. This ship...
were found some years later: the Gokstad ship in 1880 and the Oseberg ship in 1904. The reason was that the Gokstad ship and the Oseberg ship were found...
installed describing the local wildlife and flora. Íslendingur Gokstad ship GokstadMound Vinner, Max (2002). Boats of the Viking Ship Museum (Viking Ship...
bearing on the Beowulf story, but do not contain ship-burials. The famous Gokstad and Oseberg ship-burials of Norway are of a later date. The inclusion of...
Kamper Bas is a hill and a neighborhood at Gokstad in Sandefjord, Norway. The residential area is located 10–15 minutes walking from the city center....
antiquarian. He is perhaps best known for his excavations of the ship burial at Gokstad in 1880. Nicolay Nicolaysen was born in Bergen to merchant and bank administrator...
an animal head in high relief, as seen on strap fittings from Borre and Gokstad. The ridges of designs in metalwork are often nicked to imitate the filigree...
to ca. 700 AD. Ladby – from Kerteminde on the island of Funen, Denmark Gokstad – from Kongshaugen, Vestfold, Norway Oseberg – from Oseberg farm near Tønsberg...
Lofoten, Viking Age longhouse site Borre mound cemetery, cemetery from the Merovingian period to the Viking Age Gokstad ship burial Oseberg ship burial Tune...
redefining the beginning of the viking age (for comparison see Oseberg Ship, Gokstad ship and Gjellestad ship burial). According to a confirmed interpretation...
and Ingvar fell and the Swedish forces retreated. Ingvar was buried in a mound at a place called Stone or Hill fort (at Steini) on the shores of Aðalsýsla...
of its weapons and naval stores. Cairo was built by James Eads and Co., Mound City, Illinois, in 1861, under contract to the United States Department...
Norway and Sweden, including the Oseberg ship burial (dated to 834) and Gokstad ship burial (dated to the late 9th century), the deceased had been laid...
thirty-six-and-a-half men per ship, which is comparable to the 32-oared Gokstad ship, a 9th-century Viking ship unearthed in Norway. On one hand, it is...
the boat chamber grave of Hedeby and the ship burials of Oseberg, Borre, Gokstad and Tune in South Norway, all of which date back to the 9th and 10th centuries...
have survived. This would mean that the boat is of a similar size to the Gokstad ship. The identity of the boat's occupant has not yet been confirmed, but...
important burial sites for understanding the Vikings include: Norway: Oseberg; Gokstad; Borrehaugene. Sweden: Gettlinge gravfält; the cemeteries of Birka, a World...
burial mound (Båthaugen, from the Old Norse words båt meaning boat and haugr meaning mound or barrow). It was discovered when the burial mound was opened...
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