Olaf Brattegaard blowing on one of the Oseberg tube replicas.
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The wooden Viking lur?
At Oseberg, Norway they found a grave mound with a Viking
ship.
Excavated in 1904, the 21.5 metres long Oseberg
ship is the most magninficent of the Viking ship finds. The
ship can be seen at the Vikingskiphuset
in Oslo.
A very good preserved iron mounted
oak tree chest with an advanced iron lock (key was missing) was
found inside the ship.
This chest opened smoothly and inside was found what later was
registered as “an extremely
remarkable wooden tube – a sheath/scabbard for a stick or
something…”.
The “tube” is 106.5 cm long, in 2
parts and carved from a longitudinal split branch of black alder.