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because it was believed they offered safe passage to the afterlife.That site was in the southeastern part of the country.

The ship is from the Merovingian Era.and was made by researchers from the county and the nations NTNU Science Museum.That burial mound is one of the largest Iron Age funerary mounds in Scandinavia.

and was excavated multiple times in the 18th century.The archaeologists were conducting a small survey at the burial mound.

a Scandinavian science and technology publication.

according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.The ship is from the Merovingian Era.

Gemini noted that this means ship burials occured far earlier than researchers previously believed.and noted that the Merovingian Era precedes the Viking era.

The archaeologists were conducting a small survey at the burial mound.but the ship itself appeared to have been buried centuries later.