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Shipshape
Twenty seven essays on early medieval ships in literature, rock art and graffiti, what they were like to sail, and their use for trade, and their role in the growth of ports.
Viking-age Ships and Shipbuilding in Hedeby/Haithabu and Schleswig
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 is a report on this material and also examines the role of the towns as ports and the role of trading in their development.
The Skuldelev Ships
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Viking and Iron Age Expanded Boats
During the summers from 2005 to 2007, the Viking Ship Museum reconstructed and built three boats from the Iron Age and Viking Age. Common to all three boats is that they all have a thin, hollowed-out log boat as their basic component, which is heated and softened over fire and then expanded out into a new hull form. In this book, archaeologist Ole Crumlin-Pedersen presents the archaeological background of expanded boats, while boat-builder Hanus Jensen describes how the three reconstructions were built. Both authors communicate their knowledge and experience with such passion, that we as readers get entirely swept up in their enthusiasm for this part of the Nordic clinker-built boat's history.
Five Viking Ships from Roskilde Fjord
"During the course of three summers a team from the Danish National Museum excavated and in 1962 salvaged five Viking ships from the bottom of Roskilde Fjord, 30 km west of Copenhagen. In the present book the two leaders of the excavation describe this unique diving project, as well as the five ships which have increased current knowledge of the voyages of the Vikings fivefold"--Back cover.
The Skuldelev Ships
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Archaeology and the Sea in Scandinavia and Britain
Beginning with the natural conditions for seafaring, the author explains the evolution of basic water craft into those plank-built, sail-carrying ships which enabled the seaborne activities of the Viking Age and the following medieval period, concluding with case studies of the maritime cultural landscape of Roskilde Fjord and the ship as symbol.
