longships

"longships", or ships of war, and about five hundred men.

Erling the Bold 1859

Ships teetered on the waters below, dragon-masted longships, bulky cogs, leaky skiffs, junks from the south and holks from the north, all formed around the cliffs in an immense semicircle.

A CHILD IS BORN • by Kristen Lee Knapp 2010

Kurtzhau and I stood under the ramparts of Castle Sween, and saw the loch fill with the longships of the MacSween family.

Climate Control as computer game zornhau 2009

Either way, it'll be nice to see the actor with long hair, sailing in one of those iconic longships with the dragon-head bows.

Leonardo DiCaprio To Wear Viking Horns In Mel Gibson-Directed Drama » MTV Movies Blog 2009

And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear.

Hwæt! superversive 2008

By the way, in case you're wondering what Scandinavian Airlines does use, it turns out their fleet consists mostly of longships:

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We dance the night's dawning, on longships and rowboats.

The Temple and the Fortress 2010

In the darkness they stripped such tents and shelters as they had, and moved the lighter longships from the harbour in the mouth of the bay round into the open sea to join the larger vessels and provide an alert and mobile guard for their crews and cargo.

His Disposition 2010

The popular idea of Vikings is of them leaping off longships and splashing ashore to charge into the fray.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Robert Low, part one 2008

By the way, in case you're wondering what Scandinavian Airlines does use, it turns out their fleet consists mostly of longships:

Urban Tools: Curatorial Commitment BikeSnobNYC 2010