ROSKILDE, Denmark — For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents. In December, the UN’s ...

The Draken was built in Haugesund, Norway from 2010 to 2012. The boat stretches almost 79 feet high and a little over 26 feet wide, with a 260 meter square silk sail. The ship is made of oak and ...

For decades, Thomas Kottmeier has been driven by one obsession: to build a wooden replica Viking ship. He thought about it, studied, practiced, talked about it with his family at dinners, and found ...

MOORHEAD — No doubt, Robert “Bob” Asp had his critics. That’ll never make it. “That” was a huge wooden Viking ship that Asp started building in the early 1970s with the eventual dream of sailing it to ...

CHARLOTTE - People rarely call Tim McCumber by his first name. For the last 23 years he's been "Thor" to fellow Viking enthusiasts and friends, and "Olaf" within the Renaissance re-enactment community ...

Back in March, NYC artist Dennis McNett built a wooden Viking ship and invited Philadelphia artists to decorate his linocut-layered creation with different types of prints and images to accompany. The ...

On Wednesday, June 23, it will be 94 years to the date that a 42-foot Viking replica ship sailed into Duluth, completing a voyage that began in Bergen, Norway, and roughly traced the route Norwegian ...