After exploring Oslo, we returned to Vestfold and visited historic Tonsberg - perhaps Norway's first city, thought to have been founded in Viking Age by Harold Fairhair, whose grandmother may have been buried in the Oseberg Ship. The Slottsfjells Museum in Tonsberg hosts the fourth of Norway's surviving Viking Age Ship. Unlike Tune, Gokstad and Oseberg, the Klastad Ship was not discovered as part of burial, instead it appears to have been a domestic ship which was carrying qu

The next stop on our Viking Adventure was the Midgard Vikingsenter at Borre, which gave it's name to the Borre Art Style which flourished from the late 800s to the late 900s. Like the rest of the Viking Age Art Styles, it didn't necessarily originate in the place it's named after - it's just that the art style was first recognised on some harness mounts (left) discovered in one of the Borre Burial Mounds, excavated in 1852. Still, with examples of Borre Art in Irish Sea Zone