A Very Long Longship

[Mark S]

I found this piece very interesting considering the bloody huge size of this particular longship~
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2012/dec/27/viking-longboat-roskilde-6-interactive

 

[megroot]

Great find Mark.
I always like these reports of unearthed objects.

Marc

 

[Tubby-Nuts-REMOVED]

A facinating find!..... I always wondered how in the Hell, did the Vikings cross the Atlantic, for their very brief colonisation of New-Founland!. (Vinland).. I was thinking they must have had some really big vessels!.. Here is at least is some proof.

 

[DEL]

So that's where I left it.........Well found Mark really interesting.
Cheers
Derek

 

[Don]

Up until I saw this Longship I always thought the biggest was the "Long Serpent" which if I remember was around 88 feet.
Thinking of it, a troop ship loaded with Vikings must have been an awful sight if you had just gone to the beach for a picknik.

Don

 

[Helm]

Indeed Don, or had just popped round the back of the monastery for a quick smoke at Lindisfarne

Steve

 

[Don]

You are right Steve. I wonder just how they got anyone to sign up to be a priest at Lindisfarne.

Don

 

[taffjones]

press ganged I reckon.

 

[Mark S]

press ganged I reckon.

No need for that, just had to tell them the place was overrun with alter boys.........they would've crawled over broken oyster shells to get there.

 

[Don]

Now Mark, I feel the question must be asked............what do you know of the monks habbits with Oyster shells?

Don