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For thousands of years? When should that have been? It was only a couple of HUNDREDS of years!😮

@jorgeo4483

Ай бұрын

And copied from the roman boat of the Rhin.

@joshthalheimer

24 күн бұрын

@@jorgeo4483 who copied carthage...

@fludblud

15 күн бұрын

Yes for at least a thousand years, the oldest remains of proto longships used by Scandinavian tribes date from 400BC used mainly in the Baltic. The 'Viking Age' as its contemporarily known starts when they began raids into the Atlantic.

@JeffCooper-bb5rs

6 күн бұрын

Existence of Longships have been archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC. That's well over two thousand years.

During the late 70's a long ship was built in Appledore, Devon, England. I think by Hinkes yard. It was sailed from the ship yard to London via a visit to France. My Father being from Norway volunteered to help sail the boat. I remember going to London to meet the boat on arrival at Tower Bridge. Afterwards it when to Thorpe park. After this I do not know what happened or if it is still there, probably not as forty five years may be a long time for the boat to survive.

@jorgeo4483

6 күн бұрын

All the modern replicas of a longship I've seen are bad as hell. The Roman Rhine ship had the characteristic of a square sail, two bows and a mast in the center of gravity that allowed it to maneuver in any direction on its own axis, ideal for a river but also for a naval battle, in addition to its weight. and that it could be half disassembled. The Romans used to build wooden roads for battles and were experts at transporting them. This is what interested the Saxons and Vikings in this ship. The Vikings paid attention to another fundamental detail, the low plane of the ship's body or hull allowed it to stick like the leaf of a tree to the profile of the waves, meaning that it literally could not capsize even if the wave swept over it and they had to tie themselves to the banks. Modern replicas do not include this feature. Not sure of the correct terminology in english.

Fascinating!

The sea and oceans its the life for freedom, tolerance & endurance!

That's a Lap- strake type hull, clinker is not lapped.

@lordemed1

Ай бұрын

Clinker- lapstrake mean the same thing.

@matthewwillis4892

Ай бұрын

@@lordemed1 Correct, I was thinking Carvel Planked, Senior moment.

@captglenn100

4 күн бұрын

Lapstrake construction is a broader term that encompasses both clinker built and clinch built techniques. Clinch built boats have flush hulls without the overlapping planks.

For the cinema only!!!

to reach 15 Knots, they would have had to have a length of over 125 feet ( 38 meters ) !!! unless they could get over their bow wave, and enter semi-displacement ??? I would be more inclined to believe they where 125 feet long. ( EDIT: that one they are building actually looks like about 38 meters )

Amazing they did not die of hypothermia in those long boats.

"Driving their economy through trade" - sure, thats what Vikings are know for. Trade. Sure.

Learn the bow from the stern.

The important thing was not the size, but the speed and good maneuverability in the open sea or on rivers. The Vikings were first and foremost traders. They did not trade in thralls (slavery was forbidden in Sweden and Denmark at the time), but traded in things of which there is a surplus in Scandinavia - fur, leather, tar, wooden goods, gold, copper and silver (and dried fish). That is why we have plenty of Arab coins, glass and crafts from continental Europe. Rumors of their violence are exaggerations, sometimes outright lies. These acts of violence appeared sparingly at the beginning of the Viking Age and were a church invention - they were useful in church propaganda. It's a shame people still believe that. Hollywood's and fantasy writers' version of history is pure forgery.

@lordemed1

Ай бұрын

Not so sure...at one time, vikings regularly went down russian rivers to capture slaves and sell them in the middleeast. Where do you think the word 'slav' comes from?

@dral9971

Ай бұрын

Name a single written source where the slave trade was handled by Vikings. We have not a single trace of the slave trade in Scandinavia.

@Kattenkotten

Ай бұрын

I agree about the selling of slaves because i have not found any source claiming that either. But we cannot white wash our ancestors completely. The word ”träl” comes to mind. 😊

@Alsemenor

9 күн бұрын

What were trälar then?

@Alsemenor

9 күн бұрын

​@@dral9971Ibn Battuta?

Thousads of years is a little bit overreaching as a statement. The Viking are began 900AD! The nords had no written language, so we do not know how the ships thousands of years ago looked like. But we can safely assume that boat bilding has evolved. So what we see as ships from the 900 - 1200 AD can be seen as the pinnacle of the nodic ship building history.

@AndersTornqvistsvedbergh

15 күн бұрын

There are a lot of carvings in stone depicting large boats in Scandinavia going back 4000 years. One found recently seems to be 10000 years old. In Denmark we have found the older boat constructions (preserved in swamps) so we know exactly what they look like. Regarding written language we had runes, as recorded from 2 century AD

The concept is a bit non-sensical, the boats built by the Scandi people in the period from say 900 AD to 1300 AD were varied to their purpose. Most of them were trading vessels, which, if the opportunity presented, they utilised for pirating or ravaging. The ships departed from the designs used in calmer waters especially the Mediterranean because they had far different weather to sail. Almost every Scandi ship was different to any other ship, constant variation and experimentation, varied timber and varied experience of the ship builder.

Danmark one of the Lost Tribes, the family of Dan

@lordemed1

Ай бұрын

We wish, haja

4:00 assisted the Viking people in driving their economy via trade.... Really.... what... the Slave trade ???

@dral9971

Ай бұрын

No, the Vikings were traders. They did not trade in thralls (slavery was forbidden in Sweden and Denmark at the time), but traded in things of which there is a surplus in Scandinavia - fur, leather, tar, wooden goods, gold, copper and silver (and dried fish). That is why we have plenty of Arab coins, glass and crafts from continental Europe.

@barryscott6222

Ай бұрын

@@dral9971 Really... So who was that sailing the Dniepr, and selling Slav's to the Ottomans ?

@lordemed1

Ай бұрын

Where do you think the word "slav" comes from?

@dral9971

Ай бұрын

The word "slave" appears in the Swedish language only in 1645 - and then with regard to Spanish colonization. The word slave is of - precisely - Slavic origin and denotes ethnicity. Vikings traded mainly with Christian colonies, where slavery was excluded.

@abnurtharn2927

Ай бұрын

@@barryscott6222 The Ottoman Empire didn´t exist until the 14th century. It was founded in northwestern Anatolia in 1299. The official viking age ended in 1045 at Stamford Bridge with the death of Harald III Hardråde.

0:30 ... "For thousands of years, longships have been actively operated to serve pragmatic and religious purposes, and have assisted the Viking people in driving their economy through trade." What? Nothing about raping, pillaging, plundering, burning, and terrorising?!