Whalebone, Saga Oseberg, Vikingodden, Tonsberg, Vestfold

Woman dressed in replica Viking clothing, holding a whalebone from a Greenland whale, used to attach the span of the boat to clamps on its hull, aboard the Saga Oseberg, a reconstruction of the Viking Oseberg Ship, built 2010-12 using traditional Viking methods, at Vikingodden, a shipyard run by Oseberg Viking Heritage, at Tonsberg, on the west coast of the Oslofjord, Jarlsberg, Vestfold, Norway. The Oseberg Ship or Osebergskipet is a karve type clinker built ship in oak, built in the early 9th century. It was excavated in 1904 from a burial mound in the Slagen valley near Tonsberg, and the original is exhibited at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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2010-12 Clinker Greenland Jarlsberg Karve Mast Nordic Norse Oseberg Osebergskipet Oslofjord Reconstructed Saga Slagen Tonsberg Tunsberg Vestfold Viking Vikingodden Whale Whalebone

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