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Viking-Age Ships and Shipbuilding
Viking-Age Ships and Shipbuilding
In Hedeby/Haithabu and Schleswig.
Ships and boats of the North Vol 2
Ole Crumlin-Pedersen.Hardback.322 pp. 328 illus. Viking Ship Museum Roskilde 1996.
Ships and shipbuilding were important elements of Viking culture and a precondition for trade, warfare and conquest. The important excavations at the Viking towns of Hedeby and Schleswig-Holstein revealed a rich body of finds of wrecks and parts of ships.
This is a report on this material and also examines the role of the towns as ports and the role of trading in their development.