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Journal of Coastal Research 1282-1289 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fall 1997 The Viking Ship Per Bruun Port and Coastal Engineering 34 Baynard Cove Road Hilton Head, SC 29928, USA • ~ I• BRUUN, PER. 1997. The Viking ship. Journal ofCoastal Research, 13(4),1282-1289. Fort Lauderdale (Florida), ISSN .tllllllll,. 0749-0208. ~ ~. This paper gives essential information on the design and operation of Viking ships. The information was gathered ~ ~"# from various sources including a book by Else Rosendal Vikingernes Verden (The World of the Vikings), The Ship -+; 1&r-&t Shape, Essays for Ole Crumlin Pedersen, the Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark (1995), and from various newsletters from the Marine Archaeology Center in Roskilde, Denmark. INTRODUCTION features adjusted to the natural forces, which they were ex posed to. Sails were not used in the early type Viking ships, The Viking ship is the symbol of the Viking Age. It was a but were developed for long voyages. They became an inte trade and a war vessel, built of native materials, which were grated part of the Viking vessel a couple of hundred years often re-used when materials from old vessels were put in before the major Viking raids began, that is during the 700 new ships, if possible. Old hulls beyond repair served as cof 900 AD period. Sails had been in common use in Western fins for burials of noble men and women, for fisheries, ferries, Europe long before then. The Nordic Vikings, after having or they were even used as caissons for breakwaters providing adopted the sail, developed it and the use of it in a very a foundation for the breakwater by filling them with rock and strong way making them (the Vikings) the driving force for pulling them out on the winter ice and letting them sink extensive voyages in Western and Eastern Europe waters down.
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