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At the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, Viking boats and ships are not only being preserved but new ones are being built using many of the same materials, techniques and tools that have been in use for over a thousand years. These new boats built from the ancient designs still sail the North Sea and cross oceans, as well as (in the case of this smaller one) ply the harbors and rivers of Europe today.
These boats in the harbor at Rosklide, Denmark, are working reconstructions of Viking boats of a thousand years ago. Some are designed for sail only, but most can be rowed and sailed, depending on crew size and usage.
The Viking ships that were used throughout the coastlines and rivers of Europe and Asia varied in size, depending on the destination and purpose; some held a crew of 30 Vikings, some were much smaller. The shallow draft meant that they could easily navigate the rivers, while the length of the larger ones enabled Viking exploration to what is now France, Italy, Constantinople, Greenland, and Newfoundland, Canada.
We had the opportunity to go out on one of these (the one with blue trim); we rowed out of the harbor, then hoisted the square sail.
These boats in the harbor at Rosklide, Denmark, are working reconstructions of Viking boats of a thousand years ago. Some are designed for sail only, but most can be rowed and sailed, depending on crew size and usage.
The Viking ships that were used throughout the coastlines and rivers of Europe and Asia varied in size, depending on the destination and purpose; some held a crew of 30 Vikings, some were much smaller. The shallow draft meant that they could easily navigate the rivers, while the length of the larger ones enabled Viking exploration to what is now France, Italy, Constantinople, Greenland, and Newfoundland, Canada.
We had the opportunity to go out on one of these (the one with blue trim); we rowed out of the harbor, then hoisted the square sail.
These boats in the harbor at Rosklide, Denmark, are working reconstructions of Viking boats of a thousand years ago. Some are designed for sail only, but most can be rowed and sailed, depending on crew size and usage.
The Viking ships that were used throughout the coastlines and rivers of Europe and Asia varied in size, depending on the destination and purpose; some held a crew of 30 Vikings, some were much smaller. The shallow draft meant that they could easily navigate the rivers, while the length of the larger ones enabled Viking exploration to what is now France, Italy, Constantinople, Greenland, and Newfoundland, Canada.
We had the opportunity to go out on one of these (the one with blue trim); we rowed out of the harbor, then hoisted the square sail.
These boats in the harbor at Rosklide, Denmark, are working reconstructions of Viking boats of a thousand years ago. Some are designed for sail only, but most can be rowed and sailed, depending on crew size and usage.
The Viking ships that were used throughout the coastlines and rivers of Europe and Asia varied in size, depending on the destination and purpose; some held a crew of 30 Vikings, some were much smaller. The shallow draft meant that they could easily navigate the rivers, while the length of the larger ones enabled Viking exploration to what is now France, Italy, Constantinople, Greenland, and Newfoundland, Canada.
We had the opportunity to go out on one of these (the one with blue trim); we rowed out of the harbor, then hoisted the square sail.
Photographer Ernest Storey 1980
