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Title
Ancient Viking Ships
Subject
Brisbane, Gokstad, Norway, Norwegian, QLD, Queensland, The Queenslander, reconstruction, ship, ships, shipbuilding, Viking, vikings
Description
An article on page 46 of the Brisbane newspaper The Queenslander on May 26, 1932. The public interest piece reports on the decision of the Norwegian government to reconstruct the Viking-Age Gokstad ship from the pieces recovered during excavation. It is suggested that the Gokstad ship would be the worlds oldest seagoing ship. The final paragraph of the article, which begins with ‘There was a virile romance about the vikings and their ships’, claims that it was a Viking tradition for captives to be tied down and crushed by the ships when they hit the water when being launched. Not surprisingly, this ‘fact’ is not found in modern scholarly works about the Vikings.
Creator
Anon
Source
National Library of Australia
Publisher
The Queenslander
Date
26 May 1932
Rights
No Copyright
Format
Newspaper Article; PDF
Language
English
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Original Format
Newspaper Article; PDF