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 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 ...

A photo shows the Viking grave. Although looted previously ... The central stone, used as the marker for the ship’s mast, was “clearly vulva-shaped and most likely symbolizes the deceased ...

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.

Much less is known about Viking navigation methods on ... lions molded in gold were to be seen on the ships, on the other birds on the tops of the masts indicated by their movements the winds ...

The stone suggested the woman “was to her family and household what the mast is for a ship.” A bronze key found in a Viking grave in Skumsnes. Photo from University Museum of Bergen Buried in ...