finding Vikings in The Land Of The Lost.

In my recently completed rewatch of the 1974-6 CE The Land of the Lost, I capstoned with the 2009 CE film, and had completely forgotten that a pretty near match to the Oseberg Viking Ship shows up among the sands that also have an Urban Outfitters and other odd cross-temporal Midgardian displacements. Yet given the Vikings' achievements in exploration, it instead implies that they might've purposefully come there.

This pretty much duplicates the far overplayed viral meme where an astronaut finds a drakkar on the lunar surface right after he arrives:

With the raft-over-the-falls-into-a-time-door mechanism that's used in the classic show's intro, the idea that a ship gaining entry into The Land Of The Lost via one of the many Viking "routine expedition"s river route for trade combined with a possibly exceptional Loki-quake could also explain its presence.

Or when colonizing Greenland, only 14 of 25 ships actually make it, so it could potentially be one of those 11 missing ships.

The Lost Dutchman in LotL Season 3 claims he arrived there via a maelstrom, so maybe the namesake Moskstraumen sucked a longship down & through due to the divine mechanics of Ægir & Rán's Nine Daughters who churn that whirlpool according to Snæbjörn's single stanza, a lausavísa in Skáldskaparmál.

Or since the Marshall Family arrives from 1974 CE California, it might be The Lost Viking Ship seen near that state's Salton Sea region in 1933 CE, but then displaced by a major earthquake and never found again.

In any case, I suspect if the original show had continued for a S4, a Viking might've eventually shown up, maybe wins ingénue Holly's admiration, thralls Will, single-handedly slays a group of Sleestaks, and beats Enik in flyting contest for his time-manipulating pendant. Still, we do get a ship in the film, so they're somewhere out there, probably carving runes on a pylon, or using its gem table to open a doorway to Ásgarðr.

[Side note: The plane in the pic doesn't match Amelia Earhart's Electra, which would be the obvious choice. It could be just any rando plane, but I think not. Post in the comments below if you know.]

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Guillermo Maytorena IV knew there was something special in the Norse Lore when he picked up a copy of the d'Aulaires' Norse Gods and Giants at age seven. Since then he's been fascinated by the truthful potency of Norse Mythology, passionately read & studied, embraced Ásatrú, launched the Map of Midgard project, and spearheaded the neologism/brand NorsePlay. If you have employment/opportunities in investigative mythology,  field research, or product development to offer, do contact him.