Eric Meyers
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2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yet amid all this, in the whole ship.
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There were found just two human skeletons.
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The remains of the two women were proclaimed those of the 11th century Norwegian queen Asa and her servant or slave.
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Norway had its legendary queen reborn in the new twentieth century.
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It was a number of years before the ship was carefully conserved and finally reconstructed.
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It became known as the Osserberg.
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The boat is 21.5 meters long and just over 5 meters broad and made almost entirely from oak.
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In fact, the museum was specially designed to house the Osserberg and its fellow graveship, the Gurkstatt.
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For decades, archaeologists focused on the amazing preservation of the ship and the artifacts.
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The skeletons of the two women by comparison were all but forgotten.
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After they were measured and recorded, little more could be done with them.
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But they were supposedly Norwegian royals, however ancient, so they were reburied.
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There had never been any proof that the bones were those of Queen Asa, and so, with the evidence gone, the great mystery of the Osaburg went uninvestigated.
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Who were the two women?
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Why were they buried so grandly?
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Were they a queen and her servant?
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Were they both of royal blood?
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Or were they something else?
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In the early 21st century, moves were made to re-examine some of these questions.
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Norwegian archaeologists and osteologists revisited the story of the Osaberg and of the bones.
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