The Gjellestad Viking Ship is rotting away 

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.

Nonsense

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.

@@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.

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.

@@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.

@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.

Thank you Eduardo Esteban

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.