Rothskilde 2001

At Rothskilde one can see that little has changed in the way of wooden ships since the age of the Vikings. In the background you can see the side of the museum and the impressive longboat under construction.

A scientist is involved in building an exact, full scale replica of one of the longboats, using the same tools and methods that the Viking ship builders once used around a thousand years earlier.

A number of the ships that had been intentially sunk in the bay to form a barrier to other advancing Vikings

An exact scale model of one of the ships that had been found in the bay. Identical to the one at Haithabu, just a bit south of here in Germany, near Luebeck.

The lone arrow at the upper left points at North America, where we know the Vikings arrived at some time near the end of their history. They also went all along the west coast of the Caspian Sea, (green) and I was told of them when I was in Baku, Azjerbajan, that the Vikings would bring blond and red-hared slaves to the Arab lands. A large amount of their wealth was acquired this way.