Archieved

Learn more about safety at sea in the Viking Period

Photo: Erwin Crouan
Published: 31/07-2006
Archieved: 31/12-2008

"Both the Elder Edda and Snorra Edda contain innumerable descriptions of the sea, its changeability and what may lie hidden in its depths. According to the ancient Nordic creation myth, as described in the Eddic poem Vafþrúðnismál, the sea, lakes and rivers were all formed from the blood of the giant Ymir ..."

The Swedish writer Lars Magner Enoksen has written an article about the view of the sea, the wind and the ship in the Viking Period.