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A 1925 US 5c Postage Stamp featuring the Viking, for the Norse-American Centennial. Viking is a Viking ship replica. It is an exact replica of the Gokstad ship recovered from Gokstadhaugen, a Viking Age burial mound in Sandefjord, Norway in 1880. Viking was featured at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. [1]
Pleasure Beach Resort spent three years planning and developing the replacement of the former Fun House attraction, [5] which was destroyed by a fire in 1991. [6] The ride was announced during a media preview event, revealing the name as Valhalla, [5] which in Norse mythology refers to a promised land in the afterlife for Viking warriors. [7]
Viking ships were not only tools for navigation but also cultural symbols with high artistic design value. The carvings on Viking ships are known for their intricate geometric patterns, mythological creatures, and symbolic designs, primarily found on the bow, stern, and other wooden elements.
The Viking at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Viking ship replicas are one of the more common types of ship replica. Viking, the first Viking ship replica, was built by the Rødsverven shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway. In 1893 it sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago in the United States for the World's Columbian Exposition.
The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship, but lay in the range of 5–10 knots (9–19 km/h) and the maximum speed of a longship under favorable conditions was around 15 knots (28 km/h). [3] The Viking Ship museum in Oslo houses the remains of three such ships, the Oseberg, the Gokstad and the Tune ship. [4]
Viking's Rage is a swinging ship ride at Canada's Wonderland. [1] Viking's Rage was the first of three swinging pendulum rides that operated at the park. [1] Today, there are four pendulum rides at the park, including Psyclone, Tundra Twister & Lumberjack. The ride opened in 1981 as Viking's Rage, but was renamed The Rage in 1997.
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The Viking Ship Museum (Danish: Vikingeskibsmuseet) in Roskilde is Denmark's national ship museum for ships of the prehistoric and medieval period. The main focus of the museum is a permanent exhibition of the Skuldelev ships , five original Viking ships excavated nearby in 1962.