Copenhagen - Archaeologists have hailed as "sensational" the discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking warship and seven medieval trading vessels in a muddy fjord west of the capital. But the Danes are unlikely to be able to celebrate the find, described by one museum curator as "the most important in 30 years", in quite the same style as two Swedes now diving for treasure from another, more recent, Scandinavian shipwreck.
They hope to get up to £1,000 a bottle for some 400 cases of outstanding vintage champagne that have lain undisturbed at the bottom of the Baltic since the Jonkoping, a Swedish ketch, was sunk by a U-boat off southern Finland in 1916. The champagne, a 1907 Heidsieck, has been declared eminently drinkable, having been stored for 80 years in ideal conditions.