Gokstad Mound

The Gokstad Mound is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord previously Sandar municipality in Vestfold County, Norway. It is likewise called the King's Mound Kongshaugen and is in which the ninth century Gokstad Ship changed into located. The mound became excavated with the aid of Nicolay Nicolaysen in 1880. The Gokstad Ship was built round 890 and turned into laid in the mound around ten years later. It particularly consists of alrightand has a period of 23.8 meters 78 ft. and width of 5.2 meters 17 feet.. It had sixteen pairs of oars and its top velocity is envisioned as twelve knots.

The Gokstad Ship is now located on the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. Buried together with the deliver changed into a petty king lengthy believed to had been Olaf Geirstad Alf, half of-brother of Haldane the Black However, latest discoveries have improved uncertainty and it therefore stays unknown what chieftain changed into buried at the mound. Gokstadhaugen has been defined as one of Norway’s finest archeological reveals. The government of Norway carried out to UNESCO in January 2014 to make the Gokstad Mound a World Heritage Site.