Comment by wincy

6 months ago

When is the last time someone used a vessel like this to sail to Iceland? I’d pay for someone to do that. Amazing what our ancestors accomplished.

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wincy

There was an archaeologist who drowned last year during an attempted crossing from the Faroe islands to Trondheim.

2016?

Not exactly the same type, but a recreation of a viking longboat.

Look up the book called the Brendan voyage. Leather boats from Ireland to Newfoundland. They run into trouble around the ice floes. Great book.