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ROSKILDE Zealand Denmark 🇩🇰.
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ROSKILDE Zealand Denmark 🇩🇰.
2008 © All rights reserved.
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Of the five Viking boats scuttled at the entrance to the Roskilde Fjord in order to block Norwegian Viking raiders, the largest was the so-called "Skuldelev 2." It is the second largest Viking longship ever found. It was built in Dublin, Ireland (a Viking settlement!) in about 1042 and scuttled in 1070. Its remains are in the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.
Its reconstruction is this, named Havhingsten fra Glendalough, or The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, since that's the origin of the oak used in the boat. This reconstruction was undertaken between 2000-2004 using original tools and techniques. It is 30 m (100 feet) long.
This was a warship, designed to sail or be rowed by 60 oarsmen. It has little room for provisions, since its purpose was to attack, plunder, and exit quickly. With 60 oarsmen or under sail, this boat is light and fast, with a shallow draft for rivers and beaches yet big enough to handle the waves of the North Sea.
Because of its size, it required a lot of materials. Trying to be as faithful as possible to the original, the new builders used:
4 oak trees for keel, forestem and afterstem
14 oak tress for planks
2 oak trees for keelson and mast-fish
250 pieces of crooked oak for frames
3 ash trees for the top strake with oarports
2 pine trees for mast and yard
35 pine trees for oars
10 willow trees for 1,000 wooden nails
10 lime, spruce and pine trees for shields
8.000 iron rivets
600 litres of tar
112 m² sail canvas of flax
2.000 metres of hemp rope
Of the five Viking boats scuttled at the entrance to the Roskilde Fjord in order to block Norwegian Viking raiders, the largest was the so-called "Skuldelev 2." It is the second largest Viking longship ever found. It was built about 1042 in Dublin, Ireland (a Viking settlement founded 200 years earlier) and scuttled in 1070. Its remains are in the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark.
Its reconstruction is this, named Havhingsten fra Glendalough, or The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, since that's the origin of the oak used in the boat. This reconstruction was undertaken between 2000-2004 using original tools and techniques. It is 30 m (100 feet) long.
This was a warship, designed to sail or be rowed by 60 oarsmen. It has little room for provisions, since its purpose was to attack, plunder, and exit quickly. With 60 oarsmen or under sail, this boat is light and fast, with a shallow draft for rivers and beaches yet big enough to handle the waves of the North Sea.
Because of its size, it required a lot of materials. Trying to be as faithful as possible to the original, the new builders used:
4 oak trees for keel, forestem and afterstem
14 oak tress for planks
2 oak trees for keelson and mast-fish
250 pieces of crooked oak for frames
3 ash trees for the top strake with oarports
2 pine trees for mast and yard
35 pine trees for oars
10 willow trees for 1,000 wooden nails
10 lime, spruce and pine trees for shields
8.000 iron rivets
600 litres of tar
112 m² sail canvas of flax
2.000 metres of hemp rope
