Viking Longship "Dragon Harald Fairhair" Under Sail

[Chieftain]

The Viking Longship "Dragon Harald Fairhair", (or in Norwegian Draken Harald Hårfagre)  is the largest Viking longship to have been built in modern times. Hand-built of oak, in the town of Haugesund in Western Norway, the ship is a hundred and fourteen feet long, twenty-seven feet wide, displaces seventy tons, and will carry thirty-two hundred square feet of sail. She was recently launched and has begun sailing trials, and this short video shows those early trials and gives some fascinating information about the ship and its' history...

Check out those red sails...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FXsUEHS18I0#!

 

[Chieftain]

And here is an older video of it under construction.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ3u0jjWCkc&feature=related

 

[Oceander]

Will they also be taking up those traditional Viking pastimes of pillaging the English isles?

[truth_seeker]

Will they also be taking up those traditional Viking pastimes of pillaging the English isles?

And Scottish isles, and Irish isles, and French rivers, the Volga River, Sicily, southern Italy, Canada, possibly New England etc.

And today their homelands are among the most civilized and prosperous of any.

[Oceander]

And Scottish isles, and Irish isles, and French rivers, the Volga River, Sicily, southern Italy, Canada, possibly New England etc.

And today their homelands are among the most civilized and prosperous of any.

Those Vikings sure got around eh?  My paternal grandmother emigrated from the land of the Vikings; wonder if they'd let me return as the prodigal (grand)son?

[Mcshot]

I've always wondered where they slept.  Seems it must have been at their oars if they slept at all.