With sleek sailing ships and expert knowledge of rivers ... which may have included leading men in battle in some parts of the Viking world. One famous early Irish text records how a woman known ...

Indeed, the Viking Age, from A.D. 800-1100, was the age of the sleek, speedy longship. Without this crucial advance in ship technology, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in ...

Only parts of the keel were dug out in reasonable ... and if the excavation yielded enough of the Viking ship, it would be ...

How exactly were Viking ships designed, how were they different ... or star charts known in other parts of the world. If the sagas are to be believed, Leif Erikson was told how to reach North ...