Longboats were also widely used by the navies of the leading European powers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The early Viking longboats were animal skin and wooden affairs. They were open at the top, had high sides and a large bow. Later on the Vikings learned to use wooden planks in ...
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Their seafaring nature brought Viking explorers as far south as the Mediterranean and as far west as the North American continent. The Vikings traveled in ''longboats'' and established settlements in the British Isles, Greenland, Iceland, Normandy (France) and elsewhere in the northerly regions ...
As Judith Jesch, author of Women in the Viking Age (1991), has pointed out, the Old Norse word “vikingar” only applied to men, usually to those men who embarked from Scandinavia in their famous long boats and sailed to such far-flung places as Britain, Europe, Russia, the North ...
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The spotted Dalmatian has been long associated with firefighters—and for good reason. These hardworking pups used to work well with horses in the days before fire engines and would run ahead of firefighters to clear a path as they made their way to the scene. When firefighters transitioned fr...
Viking ships were also equipped with oars. Many of the smaller viking and Scandinavian boats such as faerings were propelled using oars and sail. Faering refers to 4 oar positions.Rowboats large and small are ubiquitous throughout the middle ages and a walk through any art gallery will ...
The spotted Dalmatian has been long associated with firefighters—and for good reason. These hardworking pups used to work well with horses in the days before fire engines and would run ahead of firefighters to clear a path as they made their way to the scene. When firefighters transitioned fr...
There were moments when I felt my car pull towards the edge of a cliff while passing a vehicle inches to my left – all I could do was press in the clutch and ease my foot off the gas until they passed. Thank God for 4WD and spiked tyres. Before long we made our way into the ...