Archaeologists Finally Excavate The Oldest Viking Ship Burial Mound Ever 

where's the part about excavation?

We have known this was a ship burial. In 1786, much of the mould was excavated of soliders from the Danish-Norwegian king, looking for gold and silver. They found nails from a ship (in archeikigucal terms, a "ship" is 12 meters or more long, a "boat" is shorter than 12 meters), and timber from a burial. It has been dated to around year 900, but now it seems to be around year 700. As said in the video, this fills a gap between the Vendel and Sutton Hoo burials (around year 600), and the Oseberg and Gokstad ship burials (year 834 and 901). The importance of this dating is that the buried "king" must have been a mighty man, and his wealth must have come from his startegic position on the Norwegian coast, where he had control over the trade from (and to) the northern part of todays Norway. The trade from the nortern part of Norway must have been founded lenger bach than we belive today. This "chieftain" controlled the trade north-south, and was called the king of "the ourter part", "Ytri Halfa", of Namdalen. The trade east-west, from Medelpad in Sweden to the coast, was controlled by the chieftains of the inner part, "Efir Halfa", where the river Namsen meet the fjord. We have many grave moulds along Namsen, the 3 moulds at Bertnem (40 - 50 m diam.) looks like the moulds in Uppsale. It has been ment that thev are too earley for ship burials, but the new datings from Herlaugshaugen, Leka, may indicate that they arer ship burials. And they are not disturbed by grave robbers or "amateur archeologists".

Valsgärde here in Sweden has the earliest ship graves here in the north. At the beginning of the 600s, the first boat burial was held at the site. But you can see the ship culture up here already in the nordic bronze age. The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship.

The helmet at :50 seconds into the video: notice the symbol of the bird flying downward with its head as the nose, eyebrows for wings, and tail going up. At the same time this image is also a plant, with the eyebrows turning into vines and the birds’ tail being a stem growing upwards. Symbols of rebirth and societal growth also seen in Asia and the Mediterranean.

This film eventually FINALLY tells a little of the actual ship in the title.

Interesting but I was expecting to see many pictures of the actual site . Do not forget the Egyptians also practiced the burying of ships . :O)

thank you,well done

Viking ships have been found that are 1500 BCE and from central Russia.

Sutton hoo is the burial site of a Saxon king.

you can never say 'ship burial' enough

That dude sure had a big noggin!😳

Is the Viking creation for water transport, a large boat🛶 .. 🤔, how can one call this a ship.

If it pre-dates the viking age, then how can it be viking as the title suggests.

Why bury a boat that just seems like way to much work , i thought they put the dead in a boat and floated it out and used a flaming arrow all the time, but i guess i was wrong

Yup Good Ol' Camels of the Seas

Sutton ¨hög¨ mound = scandinavian - backbone of English is from costal Norwegian (väst norsk) all other theories are nonsense

The Merovingians ruled in parts of Scandinavia?? WHISHFUL THINKING!!

Your accent is English. England has switched to the metric system. I do not know how much 23 feet is. At least you could have the decency to ALSO mention the sizes in metric (decimal) system, for the 8 billion people who are not Americans or English Brexit voters. I fully understand that it is much easier to calculate with 5280 feet to a (n English) mile and so on than with 1000 metres to 1 kilometer. I give you that, but please be polite to the 8 billion people on this planet who are not toffs, wannabe toffs or Americans.

I live in Norway, and know about its histoty, and never heard of any "Hurlock, a legendary King of Leica", and no place in Norway named Leica, like it said in the translated text. Where do all this nonsense come from? Even the click bait image of the buried ship is just a modern fantasy drawing that is not a real Viking ship.

1st off, there were no such people known as the "Vikings". It was an act of raids and commerce. 2nd, the Norse were most farmers with some livestock raising. That is why the Norse went to Britton, to get land for their expanding populations. 3rd, the Norse were not the Norse. They were actually, initially, Celts as the Celts migrated west from the East-Indies. That culture then became the Slavs, the Vandals, the Angles and the Saxons (who initially invaded Britton right after the Romans left), who then became the "old/original" Scandinavians. 4th, of course the burial ships were ceremonial! But many times they were functional ships before the passing of that Chieftan or King. 5th, there were extremely few "kings" of the Scandinavian countries. 6th, you never once talked about Denmark which was one of the three main Norse countries with Finland being the 4th. Get your facts straight.

Vikings didn't come from Europe.

Britain was home for the vikings not europe sutton hoo proves this.And many other burials..