This volume presents the reconstructing of the Norwegian Viking-Age ship from Oseberg. The reconstruction process led to radical changes in the hull form, and the subsequent test‐sailing revealed that the Oseberg Ship was technically advanced and seaworthy. The former skepticism regarding the original ship’s sailing abilities can now be disproved.
This volume presents the building and use of the Faroese boat. It shows the boat’s great importance to the Faroese society, for fishing and transporting people and goods. The building process, craftsmanship and seamanship are examined, and the maritime history of the Faroese Islands from the Viking Age and until the 1970’s are presented.
An Archaeological and Architectural Study of Large Carvel Vessels in Danish Water, 1580-1640
by Christian P. P. Lemee
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180346
Publisher: Viking Ship Museum
Pub Date: 2006-12-01
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
371 Pages
This is volume 6 in the Ships and Boats of the North series and comprises an archaeological and architectural study of north west European shipbuilding between 1580 and 1640.
Evidence of specialised merchant seafaring prior to the Hanseatic Period
by Anton Englert
Price: $100.00
ISBN: 9788785180537
Publisher: Viking Ship Museum
Pub Date: 2015-01-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Viking Ship Museum
378 Pages
This volume presents the earliest archaeological evidence for specialised merchant seafaring in Danish waters. The cargo ship-finds of Eltang Vig, Lynæs, Karschau and Haderslev are explored in detail in order to illuminate a dynamic age, in which large, elegant cargo ships were built and sailed across the sea by Scandinavian merchants.
Ships and shipbuilding were important elements of Viking culture and a precondition for trade, warfare and conquest. The important excavations at the Viking towns of Hedeby and Schleswig-Holstein revealed a rich body of finds of wrecks and parts of ships.
This book documents the Innuit use of the kayak and umiak boats. The kayak was predominantly a hunting boat, used for long voyages, usually up rivers and streams. The umaik, by contrast, was for hunting and travelling, and was often taken whale-hunting off the north coast of Alaska.
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