16 July 2007

Wooden Ships on the Horizon

They've come to kill us and take our women and our precious metals!

When they weren't swilling mead, terrorizing Christians, settling North America and inventing a brutal mythology the Vikings spent lots of time in these. Now, some tools have decided it would be a good idea to try and recreate a voyage in a replica of a Viking Long Ship. A crew of 65 men and women are attempting to cross the North Sea in a 30 meter open-decked ship just like Norsemen of old. The account of the crossing should be pretty good reporting, seeing as how already some crew members had to be taken off because they were showing signs of hypothermia. Let's see if and when they reach land they don't head to the nearest monastery, rob the coffers and murder the priests. Catholics, beware!




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