For three turbulent centuries, the glimpse of a square sail and dragon-headed prow on the horizon struck terror into the hearts of medieval Europeans. Indeed, the ...

The planks of wood from these ships were preserved and eventually reconstructed in the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. To learn more about Viking ship building the museum has since built a replica of ...

Viking traders carried a set of folding scales which they used to weigh coins to make sure they got a fair deal. The Oseberg ship was found in 1904 and is now in a museum in Oslo, Norway.

Theories about the wreckage had swirled for years, with some believing it to be a sunken Viking ship ... 1460s with later repairs, the museum said. The large ship measures about 115 feet long ...

It is a carving in oak of the head and neck of some beaked creature which formed either the figurehead or the stern-post of a Viking ship. Its precise purpose is at present uncertain. The animal ...

Theories about the wreckage had swirled for years, with some believing it to be a sunken Viking ship. But no one had truly ... or possibly the 1460s with later repairs, the museum said. The large ship ...