Viking ships and Oslo
Trip Start
Jan 01, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
One Norwegian and a group of us exchange students went to Oslo for the day. We visited the Viking museum where we saw 3 viking ships and then went to the Edward Munch (pronounced Monk) museum. I went to the Edward Munch museum mainly because it was free I have to admit but it was interesting and revealed Munch's issues with women. It appeared as if he saw women as evil temptressed and a symbol or cause of death. The Viking museum was also very interesting and had many beautiful artifacts. The three ships were burial ships of wealthy or noble people. With them there had been burried all their nice possessions, some of which were recovered if grave robbers hadn't stolen them. To us poor students the Vikings seemed also wasteful sinc they also burried their dead with horses (transportation) and food in order for them to make the journey to the afterlife.
