The top of the Gokstad ship’s stems didn’t survive, but evidence suggests that dragon heads and metal ship vanes (similar to weather vanes) adorned other Viking ships. A Viking fleet nears ...

Preserved to the present Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg, Norway, in 1880 and 1906, respectively, established the classic image of the dragon-headed warship. Longships ...

Mr Paasche of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research revealed, "We don't yet know if this was a rowing or sailing ship. Others, like the Gokstad and Tune ships, combined rowing and ...

The lowest diagram shows an oared Danish warship of circa 300 CE that has a keel and side-rudder. The photograph is of the Gokstad ship of circa 890 that was found in a Norwegian burial mound. It has ...