The Oseberg longship – considered one of the most important historical discoveries of the Viking age — voyaged to its final destination last month. But the journey it took to get there was complicated.

The ship, built about 1200 years ago during the height of the Viking age, was first discovered in 1903 in Norway.

Jan Bill, a professor of archeology at the University of Oslo, said the ship may have been built for someone important.

"It might have been a king, might have been a queen," Bill told NPR.

Bill is also the curator of the Viking Ship Collection at the university's museum, where the Oseberg ship is kept.

"[The Oseberg ship] showed us for the first time what a Viking ship would look like," he said.

Etched into the ship are intricate carvings and mounts for shields.

"It's re

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