Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship. Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in ...

Ground-penetrating radar survey at Gjellestad, Norway In the 9th Century the Vikings started using sails, but they still needed strong rowers too for their epic voyages. In their longships they ...

"Each longship that set sail for ... revealing a more nuanced story of Viking exploration than told by the history books." More information: Allison E. Mann et al, Genetic evidence points to ...

IN January 1985 Rosalind Bowden initiated and directed the first Jorvik Viking Festival and directed it until 1993. With a small team of helpers, it was devised as a means of attracting publicity ...

Ten more Viking Longships will join the river fleet by ... Microsoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and ...

The Viking Gefjon launched in 2015 and is one of the Longships that first set sail in 2012 as part of Viking River Cruises' massive fleet-development program. The company named the Longship class ...

In 1263 AD, King Haakon of Norway sent a fleet of Viking longships to Largs, Ayrshire. When the Vikings landed on the beach, Scottish soldiers fought them off. Haakon sailed away to Orkney where ...

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The Vikings traded all over Europe and as far east as Central Asia. They bought goods and materials such as silver, silk, spices, wine, jewellery, glass and pottery. Image caption, This is the ...

What first strikes you as you step onboard Viking Ingvi, one of Viking's numerous Longship-class sisters? Sunlight. Streaming in through the glass-enclosed, two-story atrium is enough light to ...

Cat Jarman St Wystan's sits next to a part of the old River Trent (top left) used by Viking longships "Repton is of quite extraordinary significance as a place where not only are we in touching ...