Review: Denmark's Viking Ship Museum Offers a Glimpse Into Life at Sea

On display are five real Viking ships, intentionally sunk in Roskilde Fjord around 1,000 years ago to form a defensive barrier.

The Vikings were certainly world travelers: From home bases in Scandinavia they made their way as far west as North America, as far south as North Africa, and as far east as Russia and the Middle East. They were infamous as raiders, and their long wooden warships sparked terror. But they were also fishers, traders, and settlers of the British Isles and continental Europe. Each activity required a different kind of boat.

About 30 minutes outside of Copenhagen, Denmark, the Viking Ship Museum offers a glimpse into that seafaring life. On display are five real Viking ships, intentionally sunk in Roskilde Fjord around 1,000 years ago to form a defensive barrier and then carefully excavated in the 20th century. Visitors during the summer months can also sail on a reconstructed Viking craft, built on the premises using traditional materials and techniques.

Comments

[Chumby]

If you cannot affjørd to travel as far as the Middle East, a holiday in Denmark can provide tourists with the Muslim nation experience.

[SQRLSY]

Denmark's halal pork is to die for... Along with their cartoons!

Allah that I know, shit is udderly Denmarkable! And do SNOT accuse MEEEE of being a foam-at-the-mouth rabid bomb-in-my-turban dispenser of ultra-violence... Or I will have to KILL yew to prove ye WRONG!!! Allah TOLD me to do shit!

[Incunabulum]

But what about the dangers of moose bites?

I hear they can be pretty nasty.

[SQRLSY]

Humans should bite (and eat) moose more often, since they are a renewable resource! Moose, marinated and then well done, is tasty, not nasty, if you look at shit that way!

Twat I do SNOT know, is, can Muslims eat them, are they halal? They chew their cud and have split hooves... Shit is the meat in the legs or "Moose-Limbs" that I wonder about. Muslims eating moose-limbs may be too evocative of cannibalism, and cannibalism, I doubt, is very halal!

[Chumby]

Copenhagen is an urban, western community. Absent of day an animal rescue or zoo, you’re likely nit encountering moose there.

As someone that occasionally has moose on his property, I’m not worried about a bite as much as being charged or kicked by a 700 pound cow or 1000 pound bull.

[charliehall]

Denmark has an official Established Church. It is Lutheran. Less than five percent of Denmark's population is Muslim.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Now do the crime percentages.

[Uncle Jay]

No, that would racist...somehow...some way.

[Uncle Jay]

The Vikings were the world's greatest sailors due to their superior navigation skills.
They went as far south as North Africa, as far east as Russia and as far west as the United States.
But they have proven to be mediocre football players as their Minnesota team has demonstrated time and again.

[Eeyore]

The ceiling in that museum is hideous. From a distance in the thumbnail it looked like they were storing the ship under an underpass like some kind of homeless rv.