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Scandinavian 150 The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Age. Iconic images of the Vikings? square sail tall stem and stern posts oars lots of rigging . picture stone from Hejnum Riddare , Gotland. Tune Ship Burial, ca 900; excavated 1867. The Gokstad ship excavation 1880 Norway.
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Scandinavian 150 The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Age
Iconic images of the Vikings? square sail tall stem and stern posts oars lots of rigging picture stone from HejnumRiddare, Gotland
The Gokstad ship excavation 1880 Norway Replica at the Chicago World Fair 1893
Oseberg Ship Burial Norway excavated 1904-5 ca 834, 2 female human skeletons, 14 horses, 1 ox and 3 dogs
The Skuldelev ships, excavated 1962 Roskilde 6, excavated 1997, longest Viking ship so far discovered; after 1025 The Ladby ship, exc. 1936
Clinker- built Viking ships
Yes! Navigable Reconstructions! different types of ships:
Helge Ask Skuldelev 5, original ca. 1040
KrakaFyr Skuldelev 6, ca. 1030 fishing and cargo vessel
Ossar Skuldelev 1, ca. 1030 Ocean-going trader, knarr
Roar Edge Skuldelev 3, ca. 1030 a small trader around Denmark and in the Baltic
Estrid, original ca. 1130-1150 a small farm boat, transport for cargo or people
Johanna A ship’s boat (from the Gokstad Ship, Norway) original ca.895 served to ferry people and cargo to and from the larger ship
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1089&no_cache=1&L=1http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1089&no_cache=1&L=1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6248978.stm
Roskilde 6 longest longship so far excavated/discovered