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"Årby Boat"
Original 1/5 scale wooden model from a 9th Century grave in central Sweden. 

The model is 31 inches long and 8½ inches wide. The Årby boat is a small utility boat that has been described as a Viking age equivalent of a bicycle.

Grave goods are items from our material culture that one would or would hope to need in an “afterlife”. They are things we should all use and enjoy in this life. They are a personal to each individual. Seamus Heaney – the Irish poet, in his poem “North”, best expressed an outlook on life with which I most closely hold. It goes something like this: 
Compose in darkness. 
Expect aurora borealis in the long fray but no cascade of light. 
Keep your eye clear as a bleb of an iceberg. 
Trust only what you can hold in your hand