The Vikings are coming!

Subject: The Vikings are coming!
From:
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 07:53 AM

I was listening to the radio yesterday. Apparently they launched a Viking Dragon ship out of Reykjavik, Iceland. 19 men and 1 woman are headed on a 4 month trip to Newfoundland. I hope they will come down to Halifax for the Tall Ships event too!

Maybe Skarpi is on it?

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 08:49 AM

I've heard that Portsmouth, New Hampshire will be visited by a Viking ship. I wonder if this is the one. (Slim possibility there's a whole fleet of 'em out there.)

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: MMario
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 09:01 AM

Jeri - you didn't know? The vikings ALWAYS travel in fleets...

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Pixie
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 11:16 AM

Can we look forward to some raping and pillaging?

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From:
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 01:00 PM

'S docha!

Perhaps

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: raredance
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 10:13 PM

This thread reminds me that 10 or more years ago a man named Robert Asp built a Viking ship in the basement of a building in Hawley, Minnesota (about 25 miles east of Fargo). When it was nearly done they had to knock out a wall of the building to extract the ship. It was classic ship in a bottle on a grand scale. Asp's dream didn't end there. They hauled it to Duluth on Lake Superior and took it out on the water for some test cruises. A couple of Asp's children and some other adventurous crew memebers the sailed the ship back to Norway. The ship was named the "Hjemkomst" which means "homecoming". After successfully reaching Norway, the ship was freighted back to the US and is on permanent display in a museum in Moorhead, Minnesota.

rich r

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From:
Date: 17 Jun 00 - 10:19 PM

Apparently this one, they built there in Iceland.

I really wonder if it has Skarpi onboard! I know he said something about coming.

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 05:34 AM

More likely to be Eric the Viking!

Skipjack

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: InOBU
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 07:54 AM

Oh hell!
Now we have to set about building round towers over here in New York, just in case!
Larry
My wife and I were in a restaurant in Momartre, Parris (sorry for the spelling) the next table were members the Norweegan Olympic Equestrian team. My wife and I told them we were mostlikely cousins, as we were Norman Irish, so Vikings way back. Well one got very dringk and began to serriously abuse the woman who was singing in the place and my wife was sitting on all five foot 10 of me to keep me from taking on this six foot seven giant eegit. I was trying to get his mates to riegn him in, to no avail so, I finally said, Oh I just rememberd, we Norman Irish are not Norweegan at all, we are decended from Danes, (not the favorites of the Norweegians) Well I am off to build a round tower, all the best brodder vikings safe voyage,
again larry

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Mbo
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 10:01 AM

Folks, just read in the newspaper that the Viking Ship Iceland WILL be heading into Halifax harbor after reaching Newfoundland. And I'm pretty sure they're gonna try and make it in accordance with Tall Ships. After Halifax, they head on down to Boston, and then New York. They're sailing to commemorate the 1000 year anniversary of Leif Ericcson's famous journey.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 01:11 PM

Nice to know my people are coming back... 'bout time they checked on us Vinlanders...

[~`

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 05:52 PM

But St Brendan got there first...(Among the latecomers arriving from the direction of Europe, I mean!)

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Rollo
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 08:37 PM

George - I just read your statement again - are they REALLY sailing a DRAGON SHIP from Iceland to New Foundland? Until now I lived with the information only viking freighters were able to go High seas, Dragon Ships were too slim to stand more than coastal cruises, allthough they were much longer...

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: catspaw49
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 09:05 PM

Click Here

Spaw

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 09:41 PM

I understand that the St. Brendan thing is open to much speculation, especialy without any real hard evidence...

"Dragon ship's", I'm pretty sure is nopt a class of vessle, rather a broad description of the basic design of many of the scandanivian ships... most of their boats, from the big ocean going biggies to the wee paddle boats that helped get them into Russia were all pretty much the same design...

Damned effecient people if ya ask me!

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From:
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 10:06 PM

As I understand it, this ship was built from a design found in excavations in Norway. It's a wooden ship, with a dragon's head at the prow, and 20 people, 19 are men. The little I heard, they were going to Newfoundland to the site of the ONLY documented Viking community in North America.

Since that first evening, I have heard they are now coming south to Halifax (hopefully for Tall Ships), and going at least to New York.

Sails and oars are it. I assume they've got some items which the Vikings didn't. I would hope GPS, Radio and emergency equipment as per current Maritime rules.

This is shaping up to be a MOST interesting summer.

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 18 Jun 00 - 10:10 PM

Vinland Itself

Would be a nice place for a re-inactor to live for a summer sometime...

{~`

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 07:56 AM

Yup, Jeri, that's the one that will be in Portsmouth, NH in September. Merde! I just read the Herald article (actually from a month ago or so; I'm rather behind on my reading) yesterday, but my random access memory has gotten more and more random lately and I can't remember the details. (The paper is in the trash but not gone, so there's hope yet!)

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: GUEST,skarpi at work
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 08:11 AM

Hallo all, no I am sorry i am not on board the viking ship Íslendingur. I am home with my family and moving my home. I think you all heard of the big Earthquake that game on the 17.of june here in Iceland.It was 6.5 on richter scale. I am alright and all the other in South Iceland witch where I live. They are telling us that there will be more coming in next days. All the best skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: InOBU
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 08:15 AM

Well, there is great proof of Brendan getting here. A few years ago my cousin was fishing off Beg inish in the Blaskets and anchord for awhile. When he pulled up the hook, there was an old wagon wheel on the fluke, thereby proving we were going to America over the road, before the flood.
Larry

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Kim C
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 09:54 AM

Ohmagawd! Is there a blue clicky thing about this ship?

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: canoer
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 09:59 AM

Hey Skarpi,

Very glad you are OK! Stay careful for these next ones! Now, Iceland is not a place we associate with earthquakes. What's going on? Some old dormant volcano waking up?

Best wishes

Save the guitars

Larry C.

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 10:17 AM

Here is a link to information and pictures about the construction and voyage of the Viking ship "Hjemkomst" back in the 1980's. Note that the "Hjemkomst" and the "Icelander" were both patterned after the same excavated ship from the 800's. They can certainly sail the high seas as the Hjemkomst's journey from Duluth Minnesota to Bergen Norway deomstrated in 1982 and the "Icelander" will demonstrate this year in the opposite direction.

http://www.hjemkomst-center.com/

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: SDShad
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 10:58 AM

Pixie--

but if they do rape and pillage, then they'll probably just settle down and start farming....

Chris

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From:
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 11:29 AM

Skarpi, Glad to hear you are fine.

Heard about the earthquake, but didn't know you were in that locale. Take care.

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 01:17 PM

SDShad...

Not a bad system eh?

{~`

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: SDShad
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 02:37 PM

Oh, sure, Clinton. It's all great fun until someone puts an eye out. Next thing you know, they'll be establishing kingdoms on the rivers of Ukraine and attacking the gates of Constantinople...

Chris

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: Clinton Hammond2
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 02:46 PM

AGAIN!?!?!?!

Count me in for that too!!

LO!!!!!!

{~`

Subject: RE: The Vikings are coming!
From: InOBU
Date: 19 Jun 00 - 04:59 PM

Gee Scarpi, keep safe old man! Time for - what was it James Bond used to drink, Gin and Tonic??? stired not shaken!!!
All the best,
Larry