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	Age of Exploration - On-line Curriculum Guide - The Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia
		A Viking ship with a beautifully carved keel was discovered in Norway in 1903 and was probably built around 800 A.D. Known as the Oseberg, this ship was approximately 71 feet long and 16 feet wide with 15 pairs of oars and a nailed-down deck.
		The Viking Jarl or earl was master of his district and had to feed men and have the largest ship, or be at the mercy of his neighbors.
		Vikings were very proud of their freeborn status and would not bow to any man.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/viking_ships.php (1307 words)

	Regia Anglorum - Viking Ship Construction
		Without their ships, and the ability to pick and choose where to attack, they would have only been a footnote on history's page, so let's look at what made these craft so special, and the Vikings so feared.
		All Viking ships - and, come to that, all ships in northern Europe for centuries before and after the Viking Age - were made by this method of overlapping the edges of the Strakes and riveting the overlap section together.
		Before the Viking were Christian, the launching ceremony of a warship involved we are told a very bloodthirsty human sacrifice and even today we pour a blood substitute over the bow of a ship when she is launched.
	www.regia.org /Ships%201.htm (4700 words)

	NOVA Online \| The Vikings \| Secrets of Norse Ships
		Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship.
		Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg, Norway, in 1880 and 1906, respectively, established the classic image of the dragon-headed warship.
		The modern phase of Viking ship investigation began with the recovery of five vessels at Skuldelev in Roskilde fjord, Denmark, between 1957 and 1962.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/vikings/ships.html (748 words)

	Viking Replica Ships Worldwide
		Himingläva is a small-size replica of the 23m-long Gokstad ship.
		Ormen Friske, a replica of the famous Gokstad ship from the 9th century, was at sea on 22 June 1950 sailing from the Elbe estuary in Germany to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, when it was caught in a storm on the North Sea and broke apart.
		Vidfamne is replica merchant ship (a "knarr") - a version of the Äskekärr Ship, an archaeological finding of a shipwreck which was discovered in the clay banks of the Göta Älv, in a field belonging to the Månsgården farm south of Nol, a township some 25 kilometres north of Gothenburg, on September 15, 1933.
	pages.zoom.co.uk /leveridge/vikship.html (1826 words)

	Viking ship classes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Viking ship" is a modern term used about a whole group of different ship classes which were used in Scandinavia in the viking age (800 AD - 1050 AD) and the next couple of centuries.
		The Oseberg ship is an example of an early viking ship class which had sail, but it had a rather weak mast base and low gunwhale.
		The serpents were usually the largest ships in the fleet of a viking king, and were supposed to stand out to symbolize his superior rank.
	home.online.no /~joeolavl/viking/vikingshipclasses.htm (2249 words)

	History Viking Shipbuilding: by Jim Cornish
		A whole ship was excavated in a burial mound on Gokstad farm in Sandar, Norway.
		By studying this ship and many others discovered since, we have gained a better understanding of the design and construction of Vikings ships and have a greater appreciation of the builders' skills.
		In the case of Vikings ships, it was the result of slight changes made over six thousand years that began with a simple Stone Age dugout.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/v_shiphistory.htm (585 words)

	The Viking Longship
		Between 1957 and 1962 he was co-director of the team that recovered two longships and three other Viking ships from a blockade in a channel near Skuldelev, where desperate Danish townsfolk in the 11th century had deliberately sunk the ships to create a barricade against invaders.
		The Kvalsund ship's keel and side rudder heralded the arrival of leading performers in the drama of ship evolution that remained mysteriously in the wings until the dawn of the Viking Age: the mast and sail.
		The Viking longships, the direct descendants of the Stone Age canoes, soon found themselves surrounded by a family of related ship types that took advantage of the evolutionary potential to be found in the mast and sail.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~jasen01/texts/longship.htm (2742 words)

	Viking Ships: a little background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although people generally mention Viking ships as if there were one basic type, it would be better to think of such ships as a class, varying from oceangoing craft to warships.
		While knowledge of the various ship types is common from Viking Age literature, 1957 brought physical reality to the differences through the recovery and restoration of five Viking ships from Roskilde fjord, in Denmark.
		Another discovery was the knørr, the deep and more-rounded Viking ship that sailed the North Atlantic to Iceland, Greenland, and America.
	www.lookoutnow.com /3d/viking.htm (498 words)

	Viking Ship Home Page
		The ship had been sailed upriver and then dragged overland and then into a pit dug at the burial spot.
		Replicas of five Viking-age ships are shown in the photograph.
		Also included is the account of the 1980-1985 expedition made with this ship from Gotland in the Baltic Sea by river and overland to the Black Sea and thence by way of the Bosphorus to Istanbul, the ancient Miklagård of the Scandinavians.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/ships.html (1131 words)

	Viking Ships
		Vikings have become famous principally thanks to the long trips they made in their ingeniously constructed ships in which they visited four continents.
		Vikings had several kinds of ships according to what they would be used for and what kind of water they would have to sail, but the basic pattern was the same for them all.
		A Viking ship with a beautifully carved keel was discovered in Norway in 1903 and was probably built around 800 A.D. Known as the Oseberg, this ship was 19 feet, 2 inches long with 15 pairs of oars and a nailed-down deck.
	www.stemnet.nf.ca /CITE/vikingships.htm (1439 words)

	Scientific American: Feature Article: The Viking Longship: February 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although finds of various Viking ships and boats have been made since 1751--most spectacularly in the royal burial mounds at Gokstad and Oseberg in Norway--the classic longship itself proved elusive until 1935, when Danish archaeologists excavated a chieftain's burial mound at Ladby.
		After the recovery of the Skuldelev ships in 1962, the Viking Ship Museum was built at Roskilde to house the remains and provide a center for study and reconstruction.
		VIKING-AGE SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING IN HEDEBY/HAITHABU AND SCHLESWIG.
	www.lysator.liu.se /nordic/mirror/longship/0298hale.html (3432 words)

	Viking Ships
		Traditionally, ships were distinguished from boats by size—any buoyant vessel small enough to fit on board a ship was considered a boat.
		The detailed and professionally drafted Viking ship plan drawings used for our models are suitable for the compilation of material takeoff lists, layout for timber and plank measurement and cutting schedules for the full scale construction of an impressive and highly seaworthy sailing and rowing vessel.
		The ship is built of oak throughout arid consists of keel, stem and stern, ribs with crossbeams and knees, planking and masts.
	vikingships.tripod.com (1226 words)

	Denmark-Viking-Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The ship is a replica of a vessel believed to have been built in 1042 by a Norse chieftain in Dublin, which was founded by Vikings.
		The original is housed along with four similar vessels in the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, 40 kilometres west of Copenhagen.
		The ships were sunk in the fjord around 1060, likely as a blockade against assailants, or a toll barrier for merchant ships.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/science/040831/g083114A.html (553 words)

	Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Viking Ship Museum at Bygdøy is one of the two buildings comprising the Museum of Cultural History.
		When the Tune Ship was found and excavated in 1867 at the Nedre Haugen farm in Rolvsøy, Østfold, no separate museum was planned for the Viking Ships; neither was a museum planned when the Gokstad Ship was excavated in the summer of 1880 at Gokstad farm in the county of Sandefjord.
		In 1904 the Oseberg Ship was excavated from the Oseberg Farm in Slagen, not far from Tønsberg.
	www.khm.uio.no /english/viking_ship_museum/index.shtml (512 words)

	Digital Norseman: BC Viking Ship Project
		This picture shows our Viking Ship at the Unveiling Ceremony when it was rolled out of the boat shed and unveiled during the Scandinavian Midsummer Fest on June 23, 2001 at the Scandinavian Center.
		The Gokstad ship is about 80 feet in length and several full-sized and scaled replicas have been built.
		The Viking Ship "Munin" was launched July 7, 2001 in Vanier Park close by the Vancouver Maritime Museum.
	www.digitalnorseman.com /bcvsp.html (1151 words)

	ABC News: Man Launches Ice Cream Stick Viking Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		American Rob McDonald, right, now a resident of the Netherlands, stand on the stern of a ship he built from wooden ice cream sticks at the launch of the replica Viking ship in Amsterdam harbor, Netherlands, Tuesday Aug. 16, 2005.
		After the 13 ton boat was lifted into the water by crane, "Captain Rob," as he is known, stood calmly on the stern as a team of volunteers rowed the apparently sturdy vessel around the IJ River behind the city's central station.
		He said he was confident the ship would float, but organizers had prepared an alternate press statement just in case something went wrong.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1043462 (436 words)

	Danish Viking Ships - Copenhagen Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1962 the excavation of the ships commenced, and in 1969 a museum, dedicated to these ships and their story, was opened in Roskilde, a town app.
		Wreck no. 5 is a small war ship, which was built and maintained by the peasants around Roskilde as part of the payment for the defence of their homes.
		The experiments done with the replicas show that these viking ships of the 10th century are able to deliver the same kind of performance as the small freight ships available at the end of the sailship era!
	www.copenhagenpictures.dk /vik_skib.html (398 words)

	Aftenposten Norway, Norwegian news in English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.
		Their work is a far cry from that done in the 1950s, when workers went on board the vessel and even used a vacuum cleaner to remove dust.
		Viking researchers from all over Scandinavia are expected to travel to Oslo while the work is underway, to see the ship in an entirely new light.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article978121.ece (479 words)

	Viking Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Viking Navy Store A T-shirt, a calendar and a model ship for sale.
		Oar sails The oar sails allow the Viking Navy ship to skip down the face of a swell.
		There are Viking ships in the world that go on trips.
	www.sjolander.com /viking (684 words)

	Krampmacken, Gotland - Miklagård, Home Page
		With the Viking ship "Krampmacken" on eastward routes
		During 1980-85 the "Krampmacken" (a replica of a Viking ship, 8 m x 2 m, with six oars and a crew of about eleven) made an expedition from the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic to the Black Sea.
		For this ship of the Baltic, copied from ancient finds and illustrations, was tested in all possible waters and situations which a Viking ship on an eastward voyage would have been likely to encounter.
	www.stavar.i.se /krampmak (328 words)

	'Viking ship' related links at LinkHighWay.com
		Viking Fest - The Viking Ship that Sailed to NY in 1892
		Sailing on reconstructed Viking ship Heimlösa Rus from Russia to Finland.
		Viking Ships were the indispensable key to the Viking Age.
	linkhighway.com /?q=viking-ship (1182 words)

	The Viking Ship Museum Norway Directory
		The Viking Ship Museum displays the large Viking ships Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, as well as founds from the chief grave at Borre in the Vestfold district.
		As burial ships, carrying the dead over to “the Other World”, the ships were equipped with unique treasures such as wagons, horses and especially textiles which are seldom preserved from the Viking age, now on exhibit at the museum.
		The Viking Ship Museum and The Historical Museum form the University Museum of Cultural Heritage under the University of Oslo.
	www.norway.com /directories/d_company.asp?id=671 (298 words)

	Viking Tributes. Roadside America
		Vikings loved to leave their "mark" before moving on to the next New World tourist attraction.
		There's a full-sized Leif Erickson Viking ship in Duluth, Minnesota -- single-masted, and not all that impressive (Update: Built in the 1920s, it was locked in a shed in 1999, awaiting an "long overdue" restoration).
		Vikings, for reasons forgotten in unrecorded history, are used to promote carpet stores.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /set/OVERviking.html (326 words)

	Viking Ship in Russian Waters
		The wreck of a ninth- or tenth-century Viking ship belonging to the Varenghi, a Viking tribe, has been found in Dalnaja Bay near Vyborg, Russia.
		During the ship's lifetime, a breach in one of the hull boards was repaired with a small piece of cloth in a manner similar to a patch on another tenth-century Viking ship found in 1880 at Gokstad, Norway.
		The structure of the Dalnaja ship suggests that it is earlier than Gokstad, but radiocarbon dating will be needed to establish its age more firmly.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/viking.html (235 words)

	Sinking Viking Ship?
		Subsurface radar and coring may have located a Viking ship buried in a mound in southern Norway's Ringerike district.
		This past September ground-penetrating radar revealed what may be the contours of a large ship or stones around the remains of a ship.
		Gøytil Lund believes that a ship is buried there and hopes to conduct another survey of the mound with deeper penetrating radar.
	www.archaeology.org /9801/newsbriefs/viking.html (400 words)

	Tim Osberg's Viking Ship Page
		One of the two most complete Viking ships unearthed in Norway (the other being the Gokstad), it is 21.5 meters long (nearly 70 feet).
		The stem and stern were decorated with ornate wood carvings, with the ship likely used for voyages in the fjords along the coasts of Norway by people of high rank.
		The Oseberg/Gokstad finds were joined by the discovery of five Viking Ships buried in the Roskilde fjord near Skuldelev, Denmark in 1962.
	www.niagara.edu /psychology/osberg/viking.html (363 words)

	Vikings in America
		There is evidence that a substantial amount of woodworking and carpentry was conducted at L'Anse aux Meadows during the Viking era.
		The existence of a smithy or furnace pit at L'Anse aux Meadows suggests that the location's most important function was that of a way station where Viking travelers could repair their ships and restock their supplies.
		A ballad prompted by the discovery, in the early nineteenth century, of the fragment of a statue held to be a relic from the Norsemen in New England.
	www.pitt.edu /~dash/vinland.html (517 words)

	The Viking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To participate in the festivities around the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America in 1892-93, a Viking ship reconstruction was built in Sandefjord, Norway.
		The ship did not receive much attention since the world fair theme was to honour Christopher Columbus' discovery of America.
		The ship was first stored in the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago, then restored in 1919 and stored in Lincoln Park, Chicago.
	www.abc.se /~m10354/bld/viking.htm (217 words)

	The Rus-project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Rus project did a pioneer work by starting the first Finnish Viking ship project in 1991.
		Members of the project build ship replicas and sail them the way they were sailed in ancient times.
		Viking music - our folkmusic group TSAKKU interprets the musical world of the Viking Age.
	www.qnet.fi /rus-project (157 words)

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