Pulse levels are rising among Norwegian researchers who think they may have found the country's fourth intact Viking ship buried in a mound near Toensberg. The site is just next to the spot where the famed Gokstad ship was found in 1880.

The Oseberg Ship, one of three now on display in Oslo's Viking Ships Museum, was also found in Vestfold County.

Researchers from the University of Oslo have been using radar to examine the Viking burial site. Photos have revealed an oval shape lying about a meter under the pile of stones atop the mound, called a gravroeysa in Norwegian. [more]

Aftenposten, Tuesday 21 October 2003