Norway to excavate Viking ship burial for first time in 100 years

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The country's government announced on Monday that it was providing 15.6m kroner (€1.4m) to excavate the Gjellestad Viking Ship, which was discovered during georadar studies in 2018, and from which part of the keel was pulled up last year in a test study. 

"For the first time in 100 years, we will now excavate a Viking ship. We are very excited about the result," Sveinung Rotevatn, Norway's Minister for Climate and Environment told state broadcaster NRK. "It is urgent that we get this ship out of the ground." 

 

The announcement follows a warning in January from Jan Bill, curator of the Viking Ship Collection at the Museum of Cultural History, that the structure had suffered fungus attacks since air got into the burial mound. 

"It's important because it's more than 100 years ago that we excavated a ship burial like this," he said. "With the technology we have now and the equipment we have today, this gives us a tremendous opportunity to understand why these ship burials took place." 

"These were very early excavations so there's a lot of information that we really don't have because of the way it was done at the time." 

Source: https://www.thelocal.no/20200511/norway-to-fund-first-excavation-of-viking-ship-burial-in-100-years

[Maleficent 6]

Leave it alone! We disturbed the burial of an Egyptian pharaoh and six months later the whole world succumbed to a plague. Burials should be left alone, bad juju 

[Dante 878]

29 minutes ago, Maleficent said:

Leave it alone! We disturbed the burial of an Egyptian pharaoh and six months later the whole world succumbed to a plague. Burials should be left alone, bad juju 

I totally forgot that happened and everyone was like "oh god what curse are we gonna get?!" haha

Maybe that is the true source of the rona 

[Patrickern777 667]

so, what's going to happend if they do it? 

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I hope they are not get cursed. We never know what kind of supernatural power it beholds since things like that must be tabooed?

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1 hour ago, Maleficent said:

Leave it alone! We disturbed the burial of an Egyptian pharaoh and six months later the whole world succumbed to a plague. Burials should be left alone, bad juju 

but what if it's blessed by Eir, the goddess of healing and we get the cure?

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Such a bad idea. Literally leave it alone 

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35 minutes ago, Patrickern777 said:

so, what's going to happend if they do it? 

Well they are excavating a Viking ship. They may study it or put in a museum. They aren't excavating human remains despite what some seem to think.