Skuldelev 3 is a small, elegant and sturdy trading ship, built for transporting goods in Danish coastal waters and the Baltic. The ship is the best preserved of the five Viking ships found in Roskilde Fjord, and was built of Danish oak. It had decks of loose planks fore and aft and an open hold amidships with room for about 4 tons of cargo.
The ship may have been used when the owner and his associates or family travelled to to a market or meetings at the assembly.
Dating: ca. 1040
Place of construction: Denmark
Preserved: ca. 75 %
Material: Oak
Length: 14 metres
Breadth: 3.3 metres
Draught: 0.9 metres
Displacement: 9.6 tons
Cargo capacity: 4.6 tons
No. of oars: 5 oar ports
Crew: 5-8 men
Sail area: 45 m2
Average speed: 4-5 knots
Top speed: 8-10 knots
Newspaper article from de Volkskrant. Title in English is "From rowing in the football stands to roughing it in the Norwegian wilderness: the Viking is just as hip as he is controversial".
Textile piece from viking exhibition "Vikings at The Priory". Text on fabric reads "Viking words in use today" and some of the words include happy, birth, cake, freklke (freckle), egg, husband, skill, sister, guess, sky, knife, and trust.
The picture shows a round, cream-colored fabric embroidery piece featuring purple pasque flowers at the top, a stitched outline of a Viking longship at the bottom, and the text "Legend says that Pasque flowers grow on the graves of fallen Viking warriors" curved along the top edge.
