Longships, cargo ships and navigation – how the Norsemen mastered the sea.
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There is an Old Norse word for the quietest terror of seafaring: hafvilla, the “sea-bewilderment.” It does not mean the storm, nor the enemy on the …
Read more →Some graves are so rich that they still take our breath away. The Oseberg grave near Tønsberg in Norway is one such: a ship more than twenty metres …
Read more →Around the year 1070 the people of Roskilde deliberately sank several old ships in a narrow channel of their fjord – as a barrier against attackers …
Read more →Sometimes a ship stands in the middle of a wide landscape – only it is not made of wood, but of upright boulders forming a slender boat outline …
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