Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde, Denmark

Below are photographs that I took while touring the Viking Ship museum in Roskilde. Here is a little tidbit of information from the museum's website: "The five ships on display in the Viking Ship Hall were scuttled to form a blockage in the Peberrende, a natural channel in Roskilde Fjord near Skuldelev, some 20 km north of Roskilde. That is why they are known as the Skuldelev ships. They were excavated from the sea bed in 1962."

The museum from a distance.


The ships in the front of the museum are reconstructions.


Skuldelev 1 - The ocean-going trader (front).
(Dating: ca. 1030)
Skuldelev 3 - The coastal trader (back).
(Dating: ca. 1040)


Another pic of Skuldelev 1.


Close-up of Skuldelev 3. The timbers have been conserved with polyethylene glycol (PEG 4000).


Skuldelev 1 (front).
Skuldelev 2 - The great longship (back-left).
(Dating: ca. 1042)


Weaponry information (for the Boo).


Skuldelev 5 - The small longship.
(Dating: ca. 1030)


The following pictures regarding the gods were taken for the Densleys. (Missing and thinking of you and your dogs!)










The Sea Stallion (a reconstruction of the 30-metre-long Viking warship, Skuldelev 2). During the summer of 2007 the Museum sent this ship from Glendalough on a long voyage from Roskilde to Dublin; in the summer of 2008 the ship returned to Denmark.