They believe they may find more Viking burials in the vicinity and hope they will be unlooted.

Viking boat burial iceland. On Tuesday a burial site where a Viking age chief was buried in his boat along with his sword and dog had been discovered. The first grave was discovered in Eyjafjörður fjord north of Akureyri last week. In one of the graves the deceased individual had been placed in a sitting position at the rear of a boat Age.

The site dates from the early 11 th century and features 52 burials probably of three to five generations of one farming family. The graveyard is in the modern town of Vinjeøra abutting a Viking-era farm and it also boasts several boat burials in which the deceased were interred inside wooden vessels. In the 19th century amateurs and scholars such as Kristian Kålund travelled around Iceland visiting sites.

Yesterday archeologists discovered a second boat burial at an archeological site at Dysnes ness in Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland. The two scientists investigated a small cemetery near a farm called Keldudalur in the Skagafjörđur region of northern Iceland. Archaeologists in north Iceland have discovered boat burials at an excavation site dating to the Viking Age.

Archaeologists working in a fjord in northern Iceland have unearthed four Viking graves including two boat burials. They analysed the DNA from the remains from a boat burial in Estonia and discovered four Viking brothers died the same day. Another unusual thing about the find is that Viking burials that have not been looted are rare.

Three Viking boats embedded in the shores of an Icelandic fjord have been discovered in three days Iceland Magazine reports. Icelandic pagan burials are relatively numerous and are thus a major source of archaeological knowledge regarding the Viking Age in Iceland. Many such burials in Iceland that have been excavated have been robbed.

Last September a Viking age sword was found in southern Iceland. Thirteen human skeletal remains six horse skeletons and the remains of three dogs were found at the site. One of them was the final resting place of a high-ranking Viking.