| Porthole 16 Dec 22

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a medieval shipwreck in near-perfect condition at the bottom of Norway’s largest lake.

Last month’s discovery is believed to be hundreds of years old, with sonar images showing the ship to have been around 10 metres.

The ship also had a central rudder – a feature which did not appear on ships until the 13th century.

The vessel was found during a government research mission at Mjosa, nearly 400 metres below the surface.

She is in near-perfect condition due to a lack of wave activity in the freshwater lake, with some minimal wearing indicating the wreck has been on the bottom of the lake for a long time, since corrosion takes hundreds of years to happen.