Knarr

Throughout the course of history the Vikings have been characterized by historians and the very people who encountered them as savages, barbarians, and thieves. However, under close examination it is clear that many of the practices and skills that were developed and used by the Vikings in Eighth century Europe have served as additions not only to art but they also influenced changes in government that proved positive for future government protection. The viking way of nature was not to to capture, enslave and conquer the peoples of the land which they raided. Moreover the Vikings were very oriented and organized . The main agenda of the vikings was to stealthily make their presence on the land with their marvelously engineered and decorated longships, savagely loot the country and possibly establish some business trade with the locals. A distinct practice that the Hiberno-saxons did on their homeland and abroad was stone carvings as remembrance markers or Rune Stones. Of the stones still intact today the one patroned by King Harald Bluetooth’s demonstrates commemoration to his parents Gorm and Thyra. The pattern that was used on these Rune stones became increasingly popular until a trend emerged in Scandinavia and the British Isles. The trend resembled the interlocking beastly animals from the Ship found at Osenberg. It is even suggested in the text that the style very well resembles and could have been inspired to the Hiberno-saxon art. Such Hiberno-saxon detail of the…

adventure for some. Vikings set sail and plundered Europe using advanced boating technology. Without it, the Vikings would never have become a dominant force in medieval politics, trade and warfare. There were several different types of viking ships. One example was the longship drekar with its dragon head. They crossed open oceans under sail and then for their lightening fast attacks on undefended towns and monasteries, they switched to oars. They surpass contemporary English and Frankish…

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Trading in the Viking age was absolutely needed for survival. The Vikings relied heavily on trade, and had a very vast and expansive trade network. They traded all over Europe, Asia, and even to the Far East. Most of Viking trading was done over short distances, such as the Scandinavian coasts. Viking trading was a simple system. You paid the captain of the ship for cargo space, and then sailed off to different regions in the world to trade. The Vikings built wide ships called knarrs. They were…