Paz. Mar 16th, 2025

The shipsgrave at Leka in Trøndelag turns out to be from before the Viking Age.

This summer, archaeologists carried out investigations of a burial mound at Leka in Trøndelag.

And what they found has caused great excitement. Now history must be rewritten.

It is quite startling because the ship grave is quite a lot older than the previous datings we have.

The ship grave at Leka is the oldest in Scandinavia. Read more on nrk.no and gemini