Built around A.D. 890, three quarters of a century after the Oseberg ship, the Gokstad vessel shows great improvements in design, particularly in the sturdiness of the mast supports. Not ...

The Oseberg ship was found in 1904 and is now in a museum ... To sail in them, was to be a Viking. They were built from shaped, wooden planks held together with iron rivets and wooden frames.

This stunning craft is the Oseberg Ship. It's certainly the most famous Viking ship we have, and to my eyes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most beautiful. NEIL OLIVER:'This ship was built almost ...