ROSKILDE, DENMARK — On the skipper’s command, deckhands haul in tarred ropes to lower the flax sail. Oars splash into the water. The crew, grimacing with strain, pull with steady strokes to send the ...

Long before the Pilgrim Separatists climbed aboard The Mayflower, Viking warriors made their way across the Atlantic Ocean on a longship and planted their Norwegian culture in Newfoundland sometime ...

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It’s not often on your travels that your daily anticipation of that Five O’Clock hour can stretch out for a week. But on your Danube river journey on the Viking River Cruises Longship Embla a new ...

At 114 feet long and with a hull made of oak timbers, the Draken Harald Hårfagre Viking longship is a stunning display of craftmanship and seafaring skill. A crew of 25, many of them from Sweden and ...

It took 10 years of work to prepare a Viking longship for a trip no longer than a football field. How it got to that spot goes back even further... A more than 1,000-year-old Viking ship goes on a ...

Viking welcomed seven new ships to its river cruise fleet this week with a "naming celebration" on the Rhine River in Basel, Switzerland. Six of these new vessels are Viking Longships—Viking Einar, ...

The Oseberg longship – considered one of the most important historical discoveries of the Viking age — voyaged to its final destination last month. But the journey it took to get there was complicated ...