"...historians know relatively little about the technology used in the Viking longships. Hoping to reveal details on exactly how Viking ships were sailed, researchers from the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, enlisted 61 modern Viking wannabes to take on the open seas. They hopped aboard the Sea Stallion for a 2,000-mile, six-week spin from Scandinavia to Britain and Ireland. The experiment was unrelenting in risk..."
Read more on the 2,000 mile treacherous journey using medieval technology at Discover
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