Viking Ship Museum, Oslo, Norway

The Viking Ship Museum in Bygdøy (Oslo) displays the large Viking ships Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, the best preserved Viking ships known (found in royal burial mounds in the Oslo fjord). This is a monument to Anne Stine and Helgo Ingstad, husband and wife explorers who were the first to prove that the Vikings of Greenland had found a way across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Canada, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

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The Viking Ship Museum in Bygdøy (Oslo) displays the large Viking ships Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, the best preserved Viking ships known (found in royal burial mounds in the Oslo fjord). This is a monument to Anne Stine and Helgo Ingstad, husband and wife explorers who were the first to prove that the Vikings of Greenland had found a way across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Canada, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.