Yet, why spend 10 years and many millions planning, building and sailing a 30 metre long Viking ship manned with a crew of 65?
Is it but a boyish dream? Or just to attract media attention?
No… there is a deeper sense to it.
That’s why!
The seabed round Denmark is richly scattered with shipwrecks of all times. Because the wrecks are quite often sanded up and shipworms don’t thrive in the Baltic and Danish fjords many of the wrecks are surprisingly well preserved.Such ideal conditions give Denmark a very special obligation to make its best into marine archaeology. And we succeeded. Danish investigators are leading in the world regarding research into prehistoric and medieval peoples correlation with the sea.In this article you will find more information. The authors are Dr.phil.h.c. Mr. Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and director at the Viking Ship Museum, Mrs. Tinna Damgaard-Soerensen.