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Model of a knarr in the Hedeby Viking Museum in Germany. A knarr (/ n ɔː r /) is a type of Norse merchant ship used by the Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion.
Faerings are clinker-built, with planks overlapped and riveted together to form the hull.This type of boat has a history dating back to Viking-era Scandinavia.The small boats found with the 9th century Gokstad ship resemble those still used in Western and Northern Norway, and testify to a long tradition of boat building.
Borgund stave church, in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway, built in the 12th century. The major aspects of Medieval Scandinavian architecture are boathouses, religious buildings (before and after Christians arrived in the area), and general buildings (both in cities and outside of them).
The long-ship is as a long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow draft hull designed for speed. The ship's shallow draft allowed navigation in waters only one meter deep and permitted beach landings, while its light weight enabled it to be carried over portages. Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ...
The longship's narrow deep keel provided strength beneath the waterline. A typical size keel of a longer ship was 100 mm × 300 mm (4 by 10 inches) amidships, tapering in width at the bow and stern. Sometimes there was a false outer keel to take the wear while being dragged up a beach. These large timbers were shaped with both adze and broadaxe.
The ship is a Karve, clinker built, almost entirely of oak.It is 21.58 metres (70.8 ft) in length and 5.10 metres (16.7 ft) broad, with a mast of approximately 9–10 metres (30–33 ft) in height.
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The exploration of North America by Norsemen began in the late 10th century when they explored areas of the North Atlantic, colonized Greenland, and created a short-term settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland.