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A Heavy First Day: Learning to Load the Ballast of a Viking Longship

Lofoten, April 30th, 2015 – “We pulled into Ballstad harbour the next morning to where ‘Lofotr’, the Museum’s Viking longship was lying…”

Category: Adventure, Articles, Homepage Posts, Norway 2015 Tags: Adventure, Archaeology, Ballast, Ballstad, Experimental Archaeology, Gokstad, Legends, Lofoten, Lofotr Viking Museum, Longhouse, Longships, Maritime, Maritime Archaeology, Norway, Oseberg, Oslo, Sailing, Ships, Shipwrecks, Stephen Fox, Stories, Viking, Viking Ship Museum