With some horned helmets and a couple of axes they would have fitted right in on the deck of a longship. |
The introduction of the stern rudder about 1200 led to the differentiation of bow and stern and the transformation of the longship. |
He is said to have left the city and to have taken up his abode on his longship. |
The Viking museum in Roskilde has recently completed an exact replica of an 11 th century Irish built longship which will soon set sail to Ireland. |
The galley, or longship, had carried guns on a platform at the bows, pointing forward. |
Now the longship held on her course steadily, never shifting her helm for so much as a point. |