The 3 -year -old Viking ships begin on a highly dangerous final trip to a house

Oslo Three Viking ships, who are 1200 years old, who stood up to test time on a final and perhaps more dangerous journey to her new home forever in Norway. The first to take this step is Oseberg, who will slowly take its way from its current location at the old Viking SHIP museum to a newly built add -on that will include national treasures in optimal conditions.

A very fragile oak body, covered in a heavy, protective steel platform, began on a journey of nearly a hundred yards on Tuesday. It was expected that it would take more than 10 hours, with the ship raised with a crane and moved along a path on the ceiling.

“There is something that moves deeply when you think these ships – with their long history and all the trips they made – will start their last journey,” said Audi Tonns, director of the museum.

In a publication on Facebook page On Wednesday, the museum said that the team was moving ships “in reality the beginning of yesterday and covered the first 20 meters. It went according to the plan.”

The museum shared a video clip of a time in the mobile Oseberg moving slowly, and it is hung in the air on the upper railway system covered in the power of the strong steel of the trip.

It was called the name of the places in which it was discovered, Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune-are believed to have been built between 840 and 910-in a cross-building that is very small and is not suitable to keep them properly.

“They were subjected to moisture and vibrations … Over time, the strain became so severe that they began to show signs that they will eventually collapse their support,” Tonnsen said.

Therefore, a decision was taken to transfer them to a new climate -controlled facility, which was built as an extension of the old museum, which makes it possible to keep ships in their current state for at least another century.

The transmission process is fraught with risks.

“We have to complete this process without causing any additional damage to the ships, but we know that every treatment is harmful to it,” said coordinator David Hayer, who has been planning for the project for years.

“These are Clinker objects (which are partially overlapping boards) at the age of 1200 years. In the lowest deformation, it was divided between nails and wooden cracks,” explained. Hayer.

Understanding precautions have been taken to prevent any fracture or vibrations during transportation. The ship will move very slowly, at a rate of 5.5 minutes for each courtyard.

Among other things, the oil services company witnessed in high-resolution works-such as the mode of huge structures about 1000 feet below the sea with great accuracy-was called.

“But this is another level,” Hayer said.

“The level of accuracy required, for example, when it comes to vibrations, is the same for electronic microscopes in hospitals,” he said, which requires extreme stability.

“Except for here, it includes lifting the electronic microscope, transporting it, and then set it back so that you can use it again,” he said.

If everything goes as planned, Gokstad is then transferred during the fall, then finally in the summer of 2026.

All three ships were found in separate burial sites southwest and south of Oslo between 1867 and 1904, each one is very distinct from the other.

Oseberg is decorated with decorative sculptures, and is considered the best Viking ship saved in the world.

Meanwhile, Gokstad is the largest of the three, 75 feet long and 16 feet, with an area of ​​32 awards.

The melody is much more analyzed than the other two and is believed to have been a particularly fast warship.

While Norway and its Scandinavian neighbors are often associated with archaeological discoveries during the Vikings era, the history of mankind in the region exceeds the legendary masters of the sea.

In Denmark, coastal settlements that were overwhelmed by the increasing seas more than 8,500 years ago were drawn by divers this summer. Now it is lying about 26 feet under the waves, near the second largest city in Denmark, there is evidence of the presence of a settlement in the Stone Age on the sea floor.

Divers discovered as part of a $ 15.5 million project, for six years to draw a map of parts of the Baltic Sea and the Northern Sea, which is funded by the European Union. The aim of this project is to explore the sunken landscape and reveal the settlements of the lost Stone period in the lost Stone Age with increasing energy abroad and other infrastructure projects.