{"id":18109,"date":"2023-04-21T19:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18109"},"modified":"2023-04-21T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T23:53:28","slug":"my-ancestors-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18109","title":{"rendered":"My ancestors in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Avaldsnes Church on Karmoy island. Picture by me June, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I know what you\u2019re thinking.<\/strong> You\u2019re thinking this blog hasn\u2019t been providing enough Viking News lately. Why would anyone come to a book blog, except to read about Viking News? Sure, I\u2019ve given you a few saga reviews in recent weeks, but what you want (I have no doubt) is the kind of breaking, \u201cyou read it here first\u201d information for which my name is, perhaps not re<\/em>nowned, but definitely -nowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, I\u2019ve got one today. Not only is it a major archaeological story, but there\u2019s a personal connection to me \u2013 which makes all the difference, I know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story was announced yesterday, but I waited till an English version appeared today to share it. Because I hate translating for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This from Sciencenorway.no: New Discovery of a Viking Ship in Norway<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just over a hundred years ago, the archaeologist Haakon Shetelig was incredibly disappointed when he did not find a Viking ship during an excavation of the Salhushaugen gravemound in Karm\u00f8y in Western Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shetelig had previously excavated a rich Viking ship grave just nearby, where Gr\u00f8nhaugskipet was found, as well as excavated the famous Oseberg ship \u2013 the world\u2019s largest and most well-preserved surviving Viking ship \u2013 in 1904. At Salshaugen he only found 15 wooden spades and some arrowheads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was incredibly disappointed, and nothing more was done with this mound,\u201d says H\u00e5kon Reiersen, an archaeologist at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out, however, that Shetelig simply did not dig deep enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a year ago, in June 2022, archaeologists decided to search the area using ground-penetrating radar or georadar \u2013 a device that uses radio waves to map out what lies below the surface of the ground.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now if you\u2019ve been following this blog, you know that I have a personal connection to Karm\u00f8y island. My great-grandfather Walker was born there (under another last name, naturally), and baptized at Avaldsnes Church (pictured above). The three mounds described in this article are a short distance north of the church, and I don\u2019t believe I\u2019ve actually ever seen them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, I was at Avaldsnes last June, precisely when they were doing the georadar surveys. That pleases me immensely. I was On the Scene \u2013 if clueless as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know what you\u2019re thinking. You\u2019re thinking this blog hasn\u2019t been providing enough Viking News lately. Why would anyone come to a book blog, except to read about Viking News? Sure, I\u2019ve given you a few saga reviews in recent weeks, but what you want (I have no doubt) is the kind of breaking, \u201cyou … Continue reading My ancestors in the news<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[255,4092,2047,4673,3267,3272],"class_list":["post-18109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avaldsnes","tag-karmoy","tag-norway","tag-salhushaugen","tag-viking-ships","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18110,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions\/18110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}