The 3 millennium Vikings ships embark on a final high -risk trip to a house

Oslo -The 1,200 -year -old Vikings ships who have resisted the time proof are embarking on their final trip and possibly more risky to their new home forever in Norway. The first to make the movement is the Oseberg, which will slowly make its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum to a recently constructed addition that will house national treasures in optimal conditions.

The extremely fragile oak helmet, locked in a heavy protective steel platform, began to make the trip of approximately one hundred yards on Tuesday. It was expected to take more than 10 hours, with the ship raised by a crane and moved along a track on the roof.

“There is something deeply moving when you think these ships, with their long history and all the trips they have undertaken, will embark on their final trip,” said the director of the museum, Aud Tonnessen.

In a publication on its Facebook page on Wednesday, the museum said the team that moved the ships “actually had an advantage yesterday and covered the first 20 meters. It was perfectly according to the plan.”

The museum shared a time span video of the damn Oseberg that moved slowly, suspended in the air in a superior rail system and locked in its robust steel frame for the trip.

The name of the places where they were discovered, the Oseberg, Gokstad and the melody, everyone believed that they were built between 840 and 910, they have stayed in a cross -shaped building considered too small and inappropriate to conserve them properly.

“They have been subjected to moisture, vibrations … Over time, the tension became so intense that they began to show signs that they would eventually collapse in their support,” Tonnessen said.

Therefore, a decision was made to transfer them to a new controlled air conditioning, built as an extension of the old museum, which should allow the ships to be maintained in their current condition for at least another century.

The relocation process is dangerous.

“We have to complete this operation without causing more damage to the ships, but we know that each management is detrimental to them,” said curator David Hauer, who has been planning the project for years.

“These are clinker helmets (with partially overlapping tables) that are 1,200 years old. In the slightest deformation, they are divided between the rivets, the wooden cracks,” said Hauer.

Endless precautions have been taken to avoid breakage or vibrations during relocation. The ship will move extremely slowly, at a rate of 5.5 minutes by Yarda.

Among other things, an oil services company has been called with experience in high precision works, such as positioning massive structures to almost 1,000 feet under the sea with extreme precision.

“But this is another level,” said Hauer.

“The required precision level, for example, when it comes to vibrations, is the same as for electronic microscopes in hospitals” that require extreme stability, he said.

“Except here, it implies lifting the electronic microscope, moving it and then putting it back so you can use it again,” he said.

If everything goes as planned, the Gokstad is scheduled to be relocated below during autumn, and finally the melody in the summer of 2026.

The three ships were found in separate burial sites southwest and southeast of Oslo between 1867 and 1904, each very different from the other.

Richly decorated with ornate, Oseberg is considered the best preserved Viking ship in the world.

Meanwhile, Gokstad is the largest of the three, which measures 75 feet long and 16 feet wide, with space for 32 rowers.

The melody is much more broken than the other two and it is believed that it was a particularly fast war ship.

While Norway and its Scandinavian neighbors are often more associated with the archaeological findings of the Viking era, human history in the region surpass the legendary masters of the sea.

In Denmark, the divers were traced by the divers this summer were traced in the coastal settlements that were wrapped by ascending seas more than 8,500 years. Now that it is about 26 feet under the waves, near the second largest city in Denmark, Aarhus, there is evidence of a settlement of the stone age at the bottom of the sea.

It was discovered by divers as part of a six -year project of $ 15.5 million to map parts of the Baltic and North Sea floors, which is being financed by the European Union. The objective of the project is to explore the sunken landscapes and discover the settlements of the lost mesolithic period as energy and other infrastructure projects increase.

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