DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL DATING OF THE VIKING AGE SHIP BURIALS AT OSEBERG,GOKSTAD AND TUNE, NORWAY

Dendrochronology now provides a date, exact nearly to the year, for th ree Viking Age burial mounds of special importance for chronology in S candinavia and across early medieval northern Europe. Their dating use d to depend on the style of the carved wooden artefacts in the grave g oods; now the grave-goods are exactly and independently dated by the t ree-rings, those same links will provide doting bridges across the Vik ing world.