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    Longships were a type of specialised Scandinavian warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven...
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    The Longships is the name given to a group of rocky islets situated approximately 11⁄4 miles (2 km) west of Land's End, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom...
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    Longships Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse about 1.25 mi (2.0 km) off the coast of Land's End in Cornwall, England. It is the second lighthouse...
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  • Look up longship in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A longship is a Nordic sea-going ship of the Viking Age. Longship or long ship may also refer to:...
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    The Hugin is a reconstructed longship located at Pegwell Bay in Kent, England. It was a gift from the Danish government commemorating the 1500th anniversary...
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    Overall displacement: 50 tons. This is shorter than the Gokstad type of longships, but knarrs are sturdier by design and they depended mostly on sail-power...
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  • Draken Harald Hårfagre (English: Dragon Harald Fairhair) is a large Viking longship built in the municipality of Haugesund, Norway. It is a ship that combines...
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    Skuldelev 2, one of the Skuldelev ships and the second-largest Viking longship ever to be found. The original vessel was built in the vicinity of Dublin...
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    famous of the Viking longships. It was built for the Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvason, and was the largest and most powerful longship of its day. In the late...
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  • The knarr, a relative of the longship, was a type of cargo vessel used by the Vikings. It differed from the longship in that it was larger and relied...
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  • Lucky Leif and the Longships is a 1975 record album by Robert Calvert, produced by Brian Eno. It is a concept album dealing with how American culture...
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    replica at the Hjemkomst Center in Moorhead, Minnesota. Gjellestad ship, a longship discovered in 2019 that is similar in size to the Gokstad ship. Wikimedia...
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    (Suiones) as a powerful tribe with ships that had a prow at each end (longships). Which kings (*kuningaz) ruled these Suiones is unknown, but Norse mythology...
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    The Hedeby 1, also known as the Ship from Haithabu Harbour, was a Viking longship that was excavated from the harbor of Hedeby, a Viking trading center located...
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    Each year a replica of a Viking longship is built for Up Helly Aa. 4 – The Procession. After nightfall the longship is dragged through the streets of...
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    Plank built, one mast, square rigged, 12th to 14th century, superseded the longship Collier A vessel designed for the coal trade Corvette A small, maneuverable...
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    Museum Harbour. Skuldelev 2 is an oak-built, seagoing warship. It is a longship, possibly of the skeid type. It is approximately 30 m long and 3.8 m wide...
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  • [ˈjɛ̂lːəˌstɑː]) ship burial, also spelt Jellestad, is the remains of a Viking Age longship found at the farm of Gjellestad in Halden municipality in Norway in 2018...
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  • Purveyor, whom she duels on board his airborne longship and sends back to the Rotten World. The longship crashes into a farm, where Juliet is attacked...
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    Vikings killed by the Galicians' ballistas; and seventy of the Vikings' longships captured on the beach and burned by the troops of King Ramiro I of Asturias...
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    Coracle Dhow Dragon boat Dugout canoe Galley Penteconter Kunlun ship Liburna Longship Multihull Navis lusoria Obelisk ship Outriggers Single-outrigger Catamaran...
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  • The Longships in Harbour is a collection of poetry by Scottish author William McIlvanney. It was first published in 1970. The poems in this collection...
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  • The Long Ships (redirect from The Longships)
    indicated by actions and outward signs. In the Swedish original of The Longships, the grammar is deliberately slightly archaic. Joan Klein noted that "Within...
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    A statue of a Viking on a longship in Dublin...
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    Niue was announced in May 2021, depicting Freydis storming ashore from a longship. Magill, Frank Northen (1997). Great Events from History: 15,000 B.C.-1819...
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    as well". Clarissa Dickson Wright says that it "came to Scotland in a longship [i.e., from Scandinavia] even before Scotland was a single nation". She...
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    Viking replica ship to travel across the Atlantic ''Viking (replica Viking longship): Also on display at the World's Columbian Exposition Karl E. H. Seigfried...
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  • Norse Air Charter NORSE AIR South Africa N0 NBT Norse Atlantic Airways LONGSHIP Norway Z0 UBT Norse Atlantic UK LONGBOAT United Kingdom NIR Norsk Flytjeneste...
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  • launcher Siege tower Caravel Carrack Cog Fire ship Galley Junk Djong (ship) Longship Lou chuan (tower ship) Qiao chuan Turtle ship Camels in warfare Dogs in...
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  • Dromon Flyboat Frigate Full-rigged ship Galley Galleon Hulk Junk Liburnian Longship Man-of-war Quadrireme Quinquereme Rocket vessel Schooner Ship of the line...
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