Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship. Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in ...

Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL ... dreaming of sea kings. The wooden longship, the pride of the lord, is now ashes in the field.

Some Viking longships were decorated to look like a dragon or a sea snake, with a vicious head carved at the front of the ship. These were called Drakkar and must have been a fearsome sight on the ...

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A ship carried everything needed at sea – drinking water, dried meat to eat, tools, weapons, and furs to keep warm. Viking long ships could sail in shallow water so they could travel up ...

Viking-inspired fire festival of Up Helly Aa, described by organizers as “a northern Mardi Gras,” was held in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands on Tuesday,8.The festival involves a ...

The most striking discovery was the biggest longship yet found ... 2,175-square-foot sail, the ship must have been swift and formidable. The excavators speculate that this ship, like the others ...

The original rapierlike longships were so cutting-edge that modern scholars doubted the accounts of them until th... Want to read the full Viking Idun travel42 Cruise Ship Review? Visit www.travel ...