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The ship was located via georadar survey, officials said. The survey also identified two houses and five burial mounds.
"This helps strengthen our impression of Edoya as a power center in the Iron Age," Bjorn Ringstad, county conservator for More and Romsdal, said in a news release.
Ringstad said the burying of Viking boats was part of a funeral tradition for the wealthiest members of a community.
"They took a ship or a boat with them into their tomb," he said.