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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly ...