Full-scale Viking ship replica project to start soon in Denmark

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I’m going raiding! Who’s coming!

There is also a replica of a Viking ship in Moorhead, Minnesota that sailed from NYC to Norway via the Great Lakes and the Eire Canal.

While I agree with your list of Viking accomplishments, I would be willing to bet that the ships that were used in those endeavours were significantly larger than the one in this article.

At about 50 ft long and about 8 ft wide this was no cargo and people transport. It is a fast, short range troop transport or possibly a ferry of some sort. Depending on the availability of labor, construction time was probably a few weeks if that.

They had different standards. Back when ships were 100% made out of wood, long trips were accomplished using watercraft we wouldn’t use to cross a creek.

I’ve visited the Santa Clara (Nina) replica, thought about quitting my job and filling a crew vacancy. Of course, I was much younger then. I probably bet wrong. :^)

OTOH, that doesn’t negate your analysis — they went cray-cray on the rest of Europe for 250-300 years. :^)

You may have seen his already: very impressive.

https://www.drakenhh.com/

It certainly would have been a good experience!

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Not just Europe they made it all the way to North America.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/goodbye-columbus-vikings-crossed-atlantic-1000-years-ago-2021-10-20/

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4080282/posts?page=20#20

Will it HAVE GPS and Sonar? Truthfully, will it sail across the ocean to Vinland? Also, will the captain of the ship going to be Kirk Cousins? 🤓

Not much of a “ship”. Those Vikings were cray-cray.

I'm always amazed at how small those things were. They'd carry over 2 dozen men for weeks or months. I doubt if they could all recline at the same time.

Three were several built as props for the movies THE VIKINGS and THE LONG SHIPS.

Wow - 1893! (I thought it might have been a typo - but nope 1893!).

11-man crew on the small viking ship, 28 days to Newfoundland, and then on to NYC.

That’s pretty cool.

I believe GPS is required, as is a self-contained crapper.

There’s a small replica vessel (I don’t know if it’s seaworthy) in Muskegon, belonged for years to the Sons of Norway lodge there, sold locally in 2012, originally built in Wisconsin by a different lodge of some sort.

Anyway, Moorhead’s:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hjemkomst-viking-ship

Thank you for the link to the Hjemkomst. In addition to the replica of the viking ship; there is also a Norwegian stave church at the heritage center.