Roskilde, how a quiet Danish town became the capital of the Viking Age
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Roskilde, how a quiet Danish town became the capital of the Viking Age
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A long ship is an ingenious construction, where nothing is incidental. The animation demonstrates the construction of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a reconstruction of the almost 30-metre-long Viking warship, Skuldelev 2. The reconstruction was built in full scale at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark where both the original 1000 year old ship and the sailing reconstruction can be seen. [DK] Et langskib er en yderst sindrig konstruktion, hvor intet er tilfældigt. Animationen viser
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A long ship is an ingenious construction, where nothing is incidental. The animation demonstrates the construction of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a reconstruction of the almost 30-metre-long Viking warship, Skuldelev 2. The reconstruction was built in full scale at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark where both the original 1000 year old ship and the sailing reconstruction can be seen. [DK] Et langskib er en yderst sindrig konstruktion, hvor intet er tilfældigt. Animationen viser
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Discover the world of the Vikings through shipbuilding, sailing, and captivating stories! The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde offers unique experiences from the past, where both young and old can explore the Nordic universe. As the only place in the world, you can, during the summer season, go directly from experiencing the original 1,000-year-old Viking ships in the Viking Ship Hall to the Museum Harbour, where full-scale reconstructions of Viking ships are moored. At the boatyard on the Museum
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Discover the world of the Vikings through shipbuilding, sailing, and captivating stories! The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde offers unique experiences from the past, where both young and old can explore the Nordic universe. As the only place in the world, you can, during the summer season, go directly from experiencing the original 1,000-year-old Viking ships in the Viking Ship Hall to the Museum Harbour, where full-scale reconstructions of Viking ships are moored. At the boatyard on the Museum
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The Viking ship Skuldelev 2, located at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, was originally built in Ireland from timber from Glendalough, and this is also the reason why the reconstructed version of Skuldelev 2 is called the Sea Stallion of Glendalough.#Roskilde #roskildeshipmuseum #havhingsten #viking #wikings #vikings #vikingship #visitdenmark #glendalough #theseastallion #ireland #sagnlandetlejre #sagnlandet #fb #vikingeskibsmuseet | Knud Christoffersen
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The Viking ship Skuldelev 2, located at the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, was originally built in Ireland from timber from Glendalough, and this is also the reason why the reconstructed version of Skuldelev 2 is called the Sea Stallion of Glendalough.#Roskilde #roskildeshipmuseum #havhingsten #viking #wikings #vikings #vikingship #visitdenmark #glendalough #theseastallion #ireland #sagnlandetlejre #sagnlandet #fb #vikingeskibsmuseet | Knud Christoffersen
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Her på årets sidste dag, har vi samlet de bedste videoklip fra nogle af de mange fantastiske og kraftfulde kløvninger, der har fundet sted på museet gennem de seneste år. Det er blevet til en sand Nytårskløve-medley, der forhåbentlig vil sende jer alle rigtig godt ind i det nye år. Vi ønsker godt Nytår - på gensyn i 2024! [English] On this last day of the year, we have gathered the best video clips from some of the many fantastic and powerful cleavings that have taken place at the museum over th
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Her på årets sidste dag, har vi samlet de bedste videoklip fra nogle af de mange fantastiske og kraftfulde kløvninger, der har fundet sted på museet gennem de seneste år. Det er blevet til en sand Nytårskløve-medley, der forhåbentlig vil sende jer alle rigtig godt ind i det nye år. Vi ønsker godt Nytår - på gensyn i 2024! [English] On this last day of the year, we have gathered the best video clips from some of the many fantastic and powerful cleavings that have taken place at the museum over th
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[Dansk tekst under den engelske] The small Gokstad færing Snorri - From Roskilde with Love The small Gokstad færing Snorri, a reconstructed Viking ship has made the voyage - in a container on board a modern cargo ship - all the way to California, USA and is now on exhibit at the solvangvikingmuseum The boat itself is a reconstruction of one of the smaller boats which was found on the deck of the Gokstad Ship, excavated from a burial mound on the west side of the Oslo Fjord in 1880. In the beginn
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[Dansk tekst under den engelske] The small Gokstad færing Snorri - From Roskilde with Love The small Gokstad færing Snorri, a reconstructed Viking ship has made the voyage - in a container on board a modern cargo ship - all the way to California, USA and is now on exhibit at the solvangvikingmuseum The boat itself is a reconstruction of one of the smaller boats which was found on the deck of the Gokstad Ship, excavated from a burial mound on the west side of the Oslo Fjord in 1880. In the beginn
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Så kom den sidste af museets vikingeskibe på land for vinteren. Ottar er en rekonstruktion af Skuldelev 1, der er et havgående handelsskib fra omkring 1030. Ottar vejer over 6 tons, og vi bruger kran, når det store skib skal søsættes om foråret - og når vi tager skibet op på land igen for vinteren. Ottar er bygget af fyrretræ på Vikingeskibsmuseets værft i 1999 - 2000. Køl, stævne og bundstokke er af eg, og flere af de indvendige dele i konstruktionen er af lindetræ. Undersøgelser af skibstømmer
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Så kom den sidste af museets vikingeskibe på land for vinteren. Ottar er en rekonstruktion af Skuldelev 1, der er et havgående handelsskib fra omkring 1030. Ottar vejer over 6 tons, og vi bruger kran, når det store skib skal søsættes om foråret - og når vi tager skibet op på land igen for vinteren. Ottar er bygget af fyrretræ på Vikingeskibsmuseets værft i 1999 - 2000. Køl, stævne og bundstokke er af eg, og flere af de indvendige dele i konstruktionen er af lindetræ. Undersøgelser af skibstømmer
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Top 5 films from The Viking Ship Museum in 2021 – no. 1 We have looked back at the films we posted on Facebook in 2021 and over the next few weeks, will re-share those that performed best. Enjoy the films. Top 5 film i 2021 fra Vikingeskibsmuseet – nr. 1 Vi har kigget på de film vi lagde på Facebook i 2021 og over de næste uger kommer et kavalkadegensyn med de der har været størst interesse for. Nyd filmene. --- [DANSK TEKST UNDER DEN ENGELSKE] Rudder and rudder-frame In the Viking Age, the rudd
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På Vikingeskibsmuseet glæder vi os til foråret kommer og sejladssæsonen kan begynde! I mellemtiden kan vi tænke tilbage på varme sommerdage med vind i sejlet. Her en en film fra Saga Osebergs besøg i 2015. God fornøjelse! At the Viking Ship Museum, we look forward to spring and the beginning of the sailing season! In the meantime, we can look back on hot summer days with the wind in the sail. Here is a video from Saga Osebergs visit in 2015. Enjoy! | Vikingeskibsmuseet i Roskilde
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[Dansk tekst under den engelske] The Tools of the Vikings - Draw shaver When Viking ships were built over 1,000 years ago, boatbuilders used a wide range of specialised tools: axes of many shapes and sizes, planes, profile scrapers, spoon augers, hammers, chisels, knives and more. A complex tool-kit which reflects how technologically advanced ship-building was during the Viking Age. Luckily for us, many examples of these tools have been found during excavation. Others can be seen in contemporary
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Rul ned for dansk The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is a reconstruction of the 30 metre-long Irish warship, Skuldelev 2. It is a bold design, both heavy and strong enough to carry its 112 m² sail, but also sufficiently light and long to be rowed by a crew of 60 men. A compromise between strength and lightness. Read more about The Sea Stallion here: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/exhibitions/the-five-reconstructions/the-sea-stallion-from-glendalough-skuldelev-2 ____________
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Her på årets sidste dag, har vi fundet årets mest populære video frem igen, og den er blot en måned gammel. Den danske Kong Frederik 10. lagde nemlig vejen forbi Vikingeskibsmuseet i slutningen af november. Da Kongen blev præsenteret for den ældgamle teknik med at kløve træstammer med kiler, for at bevare træets iboende styrke, tøvede han ikke med at afprøve teknikken selv. Med stor kraft bag sine slag, fik han de første fibre af egetræet til at knage og give sig op gennem træet. Selvom du ikke
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[English version below] Få indblik i, hvad vi i dag ved om vikingetidens krigere, Hvordan så de ud på slagmarken og hvilket udstyr havde de med, når de drog ud på togter? Det er museets dygtige formidler Oliver, der fortæller om vikingekrigeren og krigernes udstyr. Udgangspunktet for fortællingerne er myten om vikingekrigerne, der hærgede og plyndrede vidt og bredt. Men var de nu også så barbariske, som de bliver beskyldt for i de gamle skrifter og sagaer? Man kan opleve fortællingerne om viking
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A unique boat-find has been added to the Viking Ship Museum's archaeological collection. On the 23rd March, the ca 3,000 year old Bronze Age boat from Varpelev was transported from the National Museum's Conservation Unit to the Viking Ship Museum. It took many hands to carry the boat into the Museum. It's now lying securely in its case in the Viking Ship Hall and is not yet on exhibition. The boat's form has to be reconstructed first, after which the process of displaying and communicating the b
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[Video lessons with Ida from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde] It's Friday, and Ida is ready to tell you about life aboard a Viking ship. Remember to turn on subtitles if you have muted the sound. We've got a lot of exciting questions from you guys out there at home school. Many of your questions are about the toilet and hygiene conditions on board a Viking ship. So that's become the topic of this Friday's video lesson, and then we'll address some of your other good questions next week. You ca
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Top 5 films from The Viking Ship Museum in 2021 – no. 3 We have looked back at the films we posted on Facebook in 2021 and over the next few weeks, will re-share those that performed best. Enjoy the films. Top 5 film i 2021 fra Vikingeskibsmuseet – nr. 3 Vi har kigget på de film vi lagde på Facebook i 2021 og over de næste uger kommer et kavalkade gensyn med de der har været størst interesse for. Nyd filmene. --- (English text below the Danish - the video has English subtitles) Test Historien: H
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På Vikingeskibsmuseet drømmer vi stort- denne gang om vikingeskibet ’Skjoldunge’ og et Grønlandstogt. Med hjælp fra et hårdtarbejdende frivilligt hold entusiaster, er drømmene i disse dage ved at blive til virkelighed. ’Skjoldungen’, den rekonstruerede version af det originale fund ’Skuldelev 6’, skal til Grønland! Turen går fra Nanortalik i syd op langs vestkysten til Nuuk- en tur på ca. 530 sømil Hele projektet vil det blive muligt at følge tæt via vores website og sociale medier. Så I vil hør
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[Dansk tekst nedenfor] A ‘rum’ – for the Viking sailor Knowledge of 'The Sea Stallion from Glendalough' 2000 - 2004: Viking-Age warships were divided into rum. A rum consists of the distance between two frames. In each rum there was normally space for two men, who at the same time were responsible for operating an oar on either side of the ship. The rum formed a framework around a considerable part of the life of the crew during a voyage. It was here they worked, here they slept and if the ship
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[Dansk version under den engelske] Planks used to make Viking ships were incredibly flexible. In this video of a jauntily bouncy plank, you can see exactly what we mean. When building on the new full scale replica of the Viking Age warship Skuldelev 5 one of the most commonly asked questions we get is: ‘Why didn’t the Vikings use saws when making planks?’ We especially get this question a lot when laboriously cleaving large oak logs. The short answer is that while small handsaws have been found
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Rul ned for dansk We learn more about the people and culture of the Viking Age by testing the reconstructed ships under realistic conditions and by sailing with the same seriousness and dedication as the Vikings did. When we sail a new reconstruction for the first time, we have to rediscover a technique more than 1,000 years old. No modern human beings possess the same basis of experience that the Vikings had, neither on land nor at sea. But the boatbuilder's sense of materials, form and aesthet
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[English version below] Her, hvor vinteren bider og vi er ved at nå afslutningen af 2025, er det tid til at se tilbage på årets store begivenheder. En af dem var uden tvivl søsætningen af rekonstruktionen af den store Gokstadbåd, der fik navnet Godfred. I august blev Godfred søsat med stor begejstring på Vikingeskibsmuseet. Båden er bygget med stor præcision og respekt for det traditionelle håndværk, og den skal fremover formidle nordisk bådtradition og kulturarv på Solvang Viking Museum i Calif
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(Scroll down for Danish translation) The boatbuilders are currently working on building a reconstruction of the smallest of the three boats found on board the Gokstad Ship. The boat is being built for Solvang Viking Museum in California. Our photographer has been documenting the process and, in this film, – the first of a series – you can see the progress so far. Read more about previous reconstructions of the Gokstad Boat here: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/building-
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[Rul ned for dansk] Viking ships have left their mark on the Scandinavian maritime culture. Today's wooden boats are still being built within the same tradition as ships from the Viking Age. The building method is called clinker-building, and there are still people in the North who build wooden boats using this technique. It is a living, intangible cultural heritage, which can be traced back to the Viking Age. Intangible cultural heritage is the traditions, techniques, social practices and langu
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Knowledge of The Sea Stallion from Glendalough: Strong and flexible back bone The keel is the backbone of the longship. It has to be strong so that it can withstand stresses and strains at sea and when the ship is run up onto the beach. It also has to be flexible, however, so that it is not broken up by the movements of the ship in the waves. The Vikings called the longships 'serpents' – perhaps because it felt as though they twisted their way through the water. The SEA STALLION’s keel is more t
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2023 går på hæld og vi ser ind i et spændende og begivenhedsrigt 2024. Én af de ting vi kan fejre i det nye år er 20 årsjubilæet for søsætningen af Havhingsten fra Glendalough. Havnen summede af liv og forventning den 4. september 2004, da Hendes Majestæt Dronningen navngav den nybyggede Skuldelev 2-rekonstruktion 'Havhingsten fra Glendalough'. Det 30 meter lange skib blev søsat og vendte tilbage til dets sidste hjem – Roskilde Fjord. Siden da, har Havhingsten rejst vidt omkring og krydset flere
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[Dansk tekst nedenfor] Enjoy this little film about what UNESCO's recognition of the Nordic clinker-built boat means. UNESCO inscribed in 2021 the Nordic clinker boat traditions on the list of intangible heritage of humanity. The clinker-built boats of the North – and the traditions associated with them – have now been officially acknowledged by UNESCO as living cultural heritage, which must be safeguarded and preserved for future generations. The Viking ship is part of this tradition and on May
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[Dansk tekst under den engelske] The Tools of the Vikings - Plane When Viking ships were built over 1,000 years ago, boatbuilders used a wide range of specialised tools: axes of many shapes and sizes, planes, profile scrapers, spoon augers, hammers, chisels, knives and more. A complex tool-kit which reflects how technologically advanced ship-building was during the Viking Age. Luckily for us, many examples of these tools have been found during excavation. Others can be seen in contemporary image
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(Scroll down for English) Det sidste skib fra Slaget i Femern Bælt i 1644 Marinarkæologer fra Vikingeskibsmuseet gennemfører i øjeblikket dykkerundersøgelser af vraget af stort krigsskib fra 1600-tallet. Skibet er måske det sidste af de forliste krigsskibe fra Slaget i Femern Bælt i 1644, danske orlogsskib DELMENHORST. Arkæologerne fandt skibet i forbindelse med rutinemæssige forundersøgelser i et område ud for Lollands kyst, hvor der i forbindelse med byggeriet af tunnelen under Femern Bælt ska
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[Dansk version under den engelske] Yesterday Sea Stallion from Glendalough sailed out of the harbour of the Museum Island for the first time this year with perfect wind at 5 meters per second and spring sun from a cloudless sky. Sea Stallion from Glendalough is an impressive reconstruction of a Viking warship that was built at the museum in the early 2000's and launched in 2004. The ship has now sailed the Fjord and oceans around Denmark almost 20 years and has been used to recreate the historic
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[Dansk tekst under den engelske] Launch day is done and dusted! Thanks to the efforts of around 200 volunteers from the Museum’s boat guilds and the staff from the boatyard, all of our full size Viking ship reconstructions are now back in the water. But the hard work doesn’t stop here. Once the ships are safely moored in the Museum harbour there’s many more hours of work ahead with loading ballast and getting the ships rigged up. For now, it’s time for a well-earned rest and to start planning in
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