From the Guardian newspaper...
"...11th-century troop-carrier Roskilde 6 emerges from the depths of history and heads for British Museum..."
"... The largest Viking warship ever found, it was discovered by chance in 1996 at Roskilde. It is estimated that building it would have taken up to 30,000 hours of skilled work, plus the labour of felling trees and hauling materials. At just over 36 metres, it was four metres longer than Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose built 500 years later, and six metres longer than the Viking ship spectacularly recreated as Sea Stallion, which sailed from Scandinavia around Scotland to Dublin in 2007..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/27/viking-ship-roskilde-british-museum
"...11th-century troop-carrier Roskilde 6 emerges from the depths of history and heads for British Museum..."
"... The largest Viking warship ever found, it was discovered by chance in 1996 at Roskilde. It is estimated that building it would have taken up to 30,000 hours of skilled work, plus the labour of felling trees and hauling materials. At just over 36 metres, it was four metres longer than Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose built 500 years later, and six metres longer than the Viking ship spectacularly recreated as Sea Stallion, which sailed from Scandinavia around Scotland to Dublin in 2007..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/27/viking-ship-roskilde-british-museum
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