Pearls, Viking swords, spears and shields among hundreds of items excavated in N. Iceland
Archaeologists working at Dysnes, a recently discovered Viking age burial site in Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland are still busy excavating invaluable treasures. Hundreds of items have been found at the site, among them two swords, three spears and three shields. The second sword : Both swords were badly damaged by rust [Credit: Hildur Gestsdóttir, Twitter] A total of six Viking age graves have been found at the site, including two confirmed boat burials. Only two of the burials have been fully excavated and archaeologists are currently exploring the third burial. The site is unusual for many reasons, not least that two boat burials have been discovered: Viking age boat burials are very rare in Iceland. The site has been badly damaged by erosion. Almost half of one of the burials already excavated had been washed away by the sea. Hildur Gestsdóttir, who is in charge of the dig, told the local news site Vísir that despite the erosion the site had already yielded so many items the te