longship

A museum in Denmark has reconstructed an Irish-built Viking longship which is on its way to Dublin, writes Rosita Boland

Sailing home with the Vikings

Erling's "longship" was one of the smaller-sized war vessels of the period.

Erling the Bold

A procession of torch-wielding guizers lead a Viking longship through the streets before songs are sung, the boat is burned and costumed revellers perform skits and routines and generally party until dawn.

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Unsure whether One-Eye is a visitor from heaven or hell, they take him with them on their longship across a misty sea.

Valhalla Rising

When not leaping off the prow of the longship or whatever, even the berserkers led surprisingly domesticated lives, if the sagas are to be believed. on 08 Jul 2009 at 5: 03 am Ben Kane

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With the Vikings, you have the added wrinkle of it being a right pain to transport horses by ship; or you could turn that around and say that the longship plus a long coastline and a lot of navigable rivers provided the Danes with some of the speed and mobility more traditionally provided by cavalry.

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure

This intriguing scene of imposing anaconda versus Viking longship headlines the Mysterious Jungles habitat.

2009 March 16 |

An archaeologist using radar technology on Monday said he has found the outline of what he believes is a 1000-year-old Viking longship under a pub car park in north-west England.

1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab

Professor Stephen Harding used Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to trace the outline of a vessel matching the scale and shape of a longship, perhaps from the time Vikings settled in Meols, on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside.

1000 Year Old Viking Ship Under Parking Lot | Impact Lab

Here was the reason why no watchman could now ride the wolf-headed prow, and why Rhuan himself hunched behind the gunwale of his longship: arrows too feeble to punch through anything but the thinnest hide, yet capable of killing a man if they so much as scratched exposed skin.

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