the Oseberg ship (above), the best preserved Viking ship ever found, reveals its Norse shipbuilders' graceful construction style. Next, the boatbuilders affixed evenly spaced floor timbers to the ...

Imagine a dragon-headed ship cutting through the frigid ... The island has burial grounds from the Viking Era on a 15-hectare land. The Norse didn't just stumble upon any wilderness - they'd ...

Aboard these ships, northern lords and their restless ... as their exploration of the New World. According to the Norse sagas, Viking mariners sailed westward from Greenland in four major ...

sailing Viking ships and burning nature. Elements from the Old Norse sagas are also included in the imagery, such as Fenrir, a wolf monster from Viking mythology who kills Odin and helps usher in the ...

The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse'. It means ‘a pirate raid’. People who went off raiding in ships were said to be 'going Viking'. But not all the Vikings were ...

Countless sailing experiments with replica ships continue to confirm the excellence of Viking ship design ... of the Icelandic sagas—narratives of Norse history and legends written in Iceland ...

The name 'Viking' comes from a language called 'Old Norse'. It means ‘a pirate raid’. People who went off raiding in ships were said to be 'going Viking'. But not all the Vikings were ...