New discovery: A 60 meter VIKING LONGHOUSE in Norway!
So the news broke today of the discovery of a 60 metre longhouse at Gjellestad in Østfold south of Oslo which continues the very exciting story of the excavations that are currently going on. This area must have been really important, not only in the Viking Age, but for centuries prior going well back into the Bronze Age and possibly beyond. As you might see from one of the older maps, the ancient farm Thorshov (Þórshof) is close by, indicating that this also was a place of great worship.
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Sources and further reading:
About the excavation: www.niku.no/en/2021/12/60-met...
The Jell mound: www.spottinghistory.com/view/...
www.sciencealert.com/jellesta...
Viking Nativity: Gjellestad Across Borders www.khm.uio.no/english/resear...
The Ancient Trail:
www.visitfredrikstadhvaler.co...
www.visitnorway.com/listings/...
Tanum in present day Sweden: www.worldheritagesite.org/lis...
Sarpefoss: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarp_Falls
Sarpsborg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarpsbo...
The band Heilung with the song Krigsgaldr: • Heilung Krigsgaldr [Of...
Norwegian language links:
YT-video in Norwegian: • Langhus på 60 meter fu...
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arkeologi.blogspot.com/2006/0...
no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellhaugen
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60 meters! That is impressive.
So exciting and good to see you again Sturla!
Sturla.....THIS is Awesome ! ! ! Good to see you again ! ! ! when I was a child the first toy I got was miniature Viking Long boat,,
Ja, dette er helt rått. Jeg er stolt av hjembyen min Sarpsborg, og ord kan knapt beskrive den nasjonale viktigheten av dette nye funnet. Jeg er i gang med forberedelser til masteroppgave i norsk vikingtid, og dette gav meg en ny idé.
Spennende 👍🏻
Good luck with your thesis!
Salute!
@@finnmacky7106 Thank you!
Sturla's enthusiasm and excitement is infectious!
SUPER exciting news! I hope they have enough funding to do a complete excavation! :)
Oh my gosh, what an amazing discovery! How crazy is it that people were farming or walking over this area never knowing the amazing historic treasure just a few feet below their very steps.
After hiking around this area of Østfold the last couple of years, and seeing hundreds of ancient sites, one can’t stop to wonder about the importance of this area down through the times. 1000 years ago, 2000, 3000…. So much lost in history, some slowly coming back thanks to historians like Sturla.
Im from Østfold, there's definitely a lot of ancient sites here. The region is especially rich in bronze age rock carvings, there's literally over a thousand of them in the region. Many viking age graves also. The region has the most fertile soil in the entire country so it was probably quite wealthy and populated compared to many other areas in the country.
@@Vikingskog you guys should travel everywhere with metal detectors you never know what you might find.
Fascinating. Thanks for keeping us informed.
That's a big one sturla.
Det er sykt kult takk for at du lagde video på det.
Interesting with such finds today, I guess we still have plenty to discover from this era!
Wow what an amazing discovery. I am very happy to be alive in the time where so much is being learned about my ancestors.
Wow . That is seriously impressive, and presumably built to impress.
Awesome discovery! Thank you for the video.
This is going to be awesome to watch unfold if they excavate the site!!
An exciting discovery!!
A FANTASTIC FIND, MORE KNOWLEDGE TO BE REGAINED. EXCITED TO KNOW WHEN THE DIG WILL BEGIN. Maybe just maybe I can volunteer for this dig, I did for the ship dig last year and because of the koof, (C19) I couldn't. Would be a honor to just wheel out dirt.
Fascinating find!
I always love your content, man. Have a great week!
I absolutely love it when you give us updates about the latest finds! Thanks so much mate :D
I like the Viking ship museum!
Great discovery! Congratulations!
Remember their courage, it's in us too
Glorious!!!
Too cool
well they had to have a very big long house because it was too cold outside. and it gave them more room to do things, make stuff , have winter food storage, and the whole big extended family can live in one. I like it! maybe the sheep were in the house in the end room?
That’s amazing! Thank for yo ur sharing this video with us, I hope to see you again my friend.
At sixty meters this site had to be the main destination for ships to bring goods to. Has any shoreline been investigated for evidence , ie, ships, tools or any iron ? Takk Sturla, always, farmer john, son of Ingvald.
The Viking ships look so much like Carthaginian, Phoenician, Greek and Egyptian ones.
Wow, interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Great work! This is the first time I've seen your channel, I can't wait to watch some more of your videos, the interview with Thor Heyerdahl's daughter looks really interesting. I read all of his books as I was growing up, my daughter just started reading Aku-Aku. I've gladly subscribed to your channel!
This was obviously a very important site at one point in time. I would be curious to find out when this site became so “unimportant” that people would farm over it. It is unfortunate that mankind has often gone through stages where simple survival overrides the desire to preserve art and history.
I Expected that this site was Special , when the Ship Burial was found , it was never going to be there by itself , more is going to be found there i'm sure !
Maybe it's my terrible earphones, but the "s" sounds are destroying my ears. Cool find though, thanks for ＳＨＡＲＩＮＧ
Hey hey hey, stop. Scandinavias second largest mound? Thought Sweden got all of them.. :) very impressive find :)
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Hi Sturla, interested in your work, did you ever do the project on the Hautville family tomb and four brothers? If so what were the results, did you discover about Tancred's ancestry? Many thanks
Greetings, Dave. The skeleton remains haven't yielded any promising DNA results so far, unfortunately. We're not giving up though
What is the map you are using?
There are links below the video. In the first link there are maps.. the old maps can be found by googling "ancient norway map". All best
is anyone allowed to go there and see it/take photos? I am pretty sure there are people who might add some knowledge to the pool.
Not sure actually. It's a farm field, so you would need to ask the local farmer.
Får ikke varsler på yout. når du kommer med ny video , trodde du hadde blitt satt i youtube fengselet lol.
Har vært inn og ut av det fengselet i år dessverre 🤣
Could you please comment on this video "The Nationalist Myth of Vikings", it's from the KZhead channel "TimeGhost History". They basicly claim that there is no such thing as "vikings" because vikings is too much of a diverse group that existed many places.
That's the reason why I was cancelled in Denmark last year, if you've seen those videos? (Playlist on my main channel page)
@@VikingStories Yes, I have. That is why I thought this new video from a very big KZheadr would be interesting to hear your thoughts since you are a scholar in this field. The channel in question made the "Great war series" that followed WW1 week by week and 1.3 million subs. Their new channel that follow WW2 called "World War 2" have 600k subs and this channel "TimeGhost History" have 244k subs. But it's all the same people. The video is called "The Nationalist Myth of Vikings". And I would love to hear your thoughts on it. Maybe go over some of the claims they make in the video.
@@Khasidon thanks. I will consider this...