Friday, November 07, 2008

The graceful curves of an ancient Danish / Viking ship

A Viking is one of the Norse (Scandinavian) explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century, says Wikipedia.[1]

These Norsemen used their famed longships to travel as far east as Constantinople and the Volga River in Russia, and as far west as Iceland, Greenland, and Newfoundland. This period forms a major part of the medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles and Europe in general.

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