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Viking Knarr
6/28/2023 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
This boat might be a scaled-down model, but the real version could surf the waves!
This boat might be a scaled-down model, but the real version could surf the waves!
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The Slice
Viking Knarr
6/28/2023 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
This boat might be a scaled-down model, but the real version could surf the waves!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThis is a Viking Knarr or what would be described as a Knarr and some in some spaces that dates back to the year or probably 750.
It was that it was the vehicle that that populated the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and eventually [speaking foreign language] in the North American area.
It could haul livestock, haul people, trad goods, whatever they needed when they migrated.
Amazingly designed.
I mean, it it was made for the North Atlantic and some very, very rough seas.
It was designed to actually scoop air in the in the in between the Straits.
And so it could go down a wave and actually surf.
This is going to be raised in the Hovland church in Hovland.
They've commissioned this.
And this is an old tradition in Scandinavia where you have a model of a boat in the nave of the church.
In the nave is the home of the church, and the raising of the boat in the nave represented the migration to the spiritual world.
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