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Clio’s Armada: 1893 Viking and the Mystique of the Viking Longship

I still think I’ve found the earliest modern example of heritage boatbuilding with Napoleon III’s 1863 trireme reconstruction effort, but I was still shocked at the vintage of this 1893 viking longship replica, appropriately called Viking. In 1880, a new archaeological discovery of a longship sparked a great deal of interest. The Gokstad is aContinue reading “Clio’s Armada: 1893 Viking and the Mystique of the Viking Longship”