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This is a short video to introduce MOIRAI's latest concert project on the Old Norse poetic Edda. More information can be found here:…

The website of Moirai, an ensemble founded in Reykjavik in 2015, which specializes in the music of the Early and High Middle Ages, and "focuses on the…

The largest Viking ship sailing in modern times, Draken Harald Hårfagre, sailed into New York City harbor September 17 2016. She left Haugesund,…

Viking-Age women's clothing on display at the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.

'Princess of Birka' display at Swedish History Museum, Stockholm

A blog post about a symposium on historical reconstructions of ships.

Vikings: Bataviawerf, Oseberg Vikingship

A collection of videos about processing timber for a Viking ship.

Documentary about the replica of the Gokstad ship that crossed the Atlantic in the late nineteenth century. For more information, see…

The logo of 'Friends of the Viking Ship' which aims to "to facilitate the preservation of the 1893 Viking Ship as an important artifact from the…

The ship, an imaginative reconstruction of a large ocean-going ship based on saga accounts, rather than following the model of a ship find. It was…

Dragon Harald Fairhair. May 2011 Working with 17th strake. The ship, an imaginative reconstruction of a large ocean-going ship based on saga accounts,…

The reconstructed Viking ship 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough' in good wind and medium swell in the Kattegat, July 2015. For more information see…

One of the earliest reconstructions, the 'Viking' is a replica of the Gokstad ship and was built in Framnes Shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway in 1892-93.…

A model of the reconstructed Klåstad ship that stands next to the display of the original.

A reconstruction of the stem of the Oseberg ship marks the Slottsfjellsmuseum.

Saga Oseberg is an exact replica of the early-ninth-century Oseberg ship, found in a burial mound in near Tønsberg in Vestfold, Norway. It is…

The gunwale of the Sea Stallion may have been fitted with a washboard, as pictured here. This helps to prevent excess water breaking over the side of…

Two crew members rowing as part of a team of 30 on board Havhingsten. Note the removal of deck planks to allow for a more efficient rowing position.…

Great co-ordination is needed to distribute the oars used on the Sea Stallion, particularly when they need to be deployed quickly. For more…

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