Preserved to the present Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg, Norway, in 1880 and 1906, respectively, established the classic image of the dragon-headed warship. Longships ...

Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off ... as the crowd belts out old songs of sea kings and dragon ships, the torchbearers tow the vessel into a walled field.

but evidence suggests that dragon heads and metal ship vanes (similar to weather vanes) adorned other Viking ships. A Viking fleet nears home with slaves and other plunder in this imagined scene ...

Imagine a dragon-headed ship cutting through the frigid Atlantic ... In 1005, he assembled the most ambitious Viking ...

The strakes of the ship were much thinner than most people realize, often only 0.78-1.18 inches thick (almost paper thin). Some Viking longships were decorated to look like a dragon or a sea snake ...

The Vikings built fast ‘dragon-ships’ and ‘long ships ... and furs to keep warm. Viking long ships could sail in shallow water so they could travel up rivers as well as across the ...

The inaugural visit of Viking’s newest ship, Viking Vela, signals the start of a busy cruise season for the UK port.

Although the original Vikings have long become extinct, their genes can still be found today. People from Norway, Sweden, and ...