Preserved to the present Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg ... particularly in the sturdiness of the mast supports. Not surprisingly, this era, during which the Norse ...

The Skuldelev ships were clinker built - with planks which overlap one another - a characteristic of Viking shipbuilding. They all had a single mast, and double-ended hulls with curved stems.

The mast could be raised within minutes to take ... and metal ship vanes (similar to weather vanes) adorned other Viking ships. A Viking fleet nears home with slaves and other plunder in this ...

Fire races up the mast, and embers fly into the night sky ... Photograph by ROBERT CLARK-PHOTOGRAPHED AT VIKING SHIP MUSEUM, MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO Around 750 a band ...

Viking announced it has taken delivery of the company’s newest ocean ship, the Viking Vela. The delivery ceremony took place this morning when the ship was presented at Fincantieri’s shipyard ...