Attention English speakers: The Norwegian and Danish interview sections require that you turn on the English (US) Closed Captions.
This film investigates the legendary viking ship! A well-known, well-investigated topic, the film tries to approach the subject as a whole but in some selective detail, as the spectrum of viking-period ships would require a couple of feature-length films! From the well-preserved Gokstad find by Nicolay Nicolaysen to what boats could be its 'ancestors'. I attempts to figure out who could have built it - and what is the current state of affairs for these well over thousand-year old ships.
At the same time we get a glimpse of new and old reconstructions, including a visit to a boat builder in Western Norway, who can tell us about the craft behind the traditional clinker built boat in modern Norway.
00:00 Iceland
02:10 The thousand year old ship
06:07 Sea kings
13:30 The ship builder
23:05 Keeping the past alive
26:58 Beyond the horizon
Sources:
Books and newspapers:
Heimskringla, Snorre
Haywood, J. (1991). Dark Age Naval Power. A re-assessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon
seafaring activity. London: Routledge
Hedeager, L., & Tvarnø, H. (2001). Tusen års europahistorie. Romere, germanere og nordboere. Oslo: Pax forlag
Nicolaysen, N. (1882) - Langskibet fra Gokstad ved Sandefjord
Ilkjær, J. Den første Norgeshistorien, med for- og etterord av Terje Gansum. (2000).
Old newspapers c. 1880. Kragerøavisen
Williamson, C. (2011). Beowulf and other old english poems. Philadephia: University of
Pennsylvania Press
Academic papers:
- Åkerlund, H. (1963). Nydamskeppen. En studie i tidig skandiavisk skeppsbyggnadskonst. Gøteborg:Elanders bocktryckeri aktiebolag.
- Hansen, U. L. (2002). Logistic considerations in connection with the attacks on Denmark from the sea in the Late Roman period. I A. N. Jørgensen, J. Pind, L. Jørgensen, & B. Clausen, Maritime Warfare in Northern Europe. Technology, organisation, logistics and
administration 500 BC-1500 AD. (ss. 29-46). København: Nasjonalmuseet.
- Jørgensen, A. N. (1997). Sea defence in Denmark AD 200-1300. I A. N. (red.), Military Aspects of Scandinavian society in a European perspective, AD 1-1300 (ss. 200-208). København: Nasjonalmuseet.
- Nodreide, S. W., Bonde, N., & Thun, T. (2020). At the threshold of the Viking Age: New
dendrochronological dates for the Kvalsund ship and boat bog offerings (Norway). Journal
of Archaeological Science, Reports 29
- Skre, D. (2018). Sea Kings on the Nordvegr. I D. S. (red.), Avaldsnes - A Sea Kings' manor in First Millennium Western-Scandinavia
- Østmo, E. (2003). Da nordboene lærte seg å ro. En teknologisk nyvinning for sjøfarten i tidligjernalder. Viking, 66, ss. 7-24.
Museums and digital sources:
Vikingtidsmuseet - [ Ссылка ]
Vikingeskibsmuseet - [ Ссылка ]
Avaldsnes Historiesenter - [ Ссылка ]
Friends of Viking - [ Ссылка ]
Viking i Chicago, 1893 - [ Ссылка ]
Viking ships in Iceland - [ Ссылка ]
A Viking Period before the Vikings? _ [ Ссылка ]
Various news websites from Norway regarding the moving of Gokstad/Oseberg/Tune ships.
Reconstructions, boat builders and other links:
Bjørkedal kystlag: [ Ссылка ]
Saga Farmann: [ Ссылка ]
Saga Oseberg: [ Ссылка ]
Saga Gokstad: [ Ссылка ]
