Hahah! To be fair... Floki's was about 1/5th the size of this beast (and he always seemed to be ALONE) how did this show even become popular, nevermind get made - realism out the window lol
As a carpenter and a kayaker I can appreciate the level of craftsmanship that has gone into this ship. Using the traditional methods of ship construction it is going to be a masterpiece and a source of pride for all involved.
@@fe02lix funny little fact, as an Englishman I'm very greatful for the Norwegians hard work in mastering the longboat, as when Vikings settled across Britian, they shared their ship building skills which lead the British to developing their own first naval fleet and an obsession of our own with ship building. Which eventually lead to the royal navy dominating the world. All started with the Viking longship, Crazy when you think about it like that.
AWESOME!!! Love the use of hand tools - excellent craftsmen. Much respect to the vikings who did this without modcons. Farmers, builders, shipwrights and warriors - real men!
There is one here in Kelowna BC Canada that was handbuilt many many years ago. It is sitting covered by tarps in a backyard of a lakefront home. It was built on the lake by the Jennens family and friends and taken to the coast and sailed to Greenland and then Newfoundland. It was about 20 meters long.
The Hollywood image of barbaric Vikings simply becomes laughable in the face of this degree of craftsmanship, and the social resources and organization that would have been needed to facilitate such construction and design.
I agree hollywood is a humiliated and perverted circus that belittles so many cultures for its purpose. The real problem is that fake history does the exact same in order to hide the incompetence, failure and autocracies of certain governments.
No Who really does? most modern day theories are based on old manuscripts and analysts of old artifacts. I'm certain a great deal of educated guessing has gone into what we think the ancients did.
Zzzz, a Norse tool box was found not too long ago. It was intact and full of tools. Most of them were easily recognizable by modern hand tool woodworkers. A lot of that stuff hasn't changed for centuries. Modern tools makers can mass produce these things with greater accuracy but the core tools haven't changed. The main difference between the way we build things today and the medieval times is that we have detailed drawn plans. Medieval builders tended to start with a broad plan but the individual measurements were based off of the previous step. They didn't have rulers or standardized measurements. They would use things like string or story sticks to ensure consistency. So, other than using a few things like modern drills and saws to save time, it looked like they stayed pretty true to the original methods as we understand it. Even at that, it looked like the bit they were using in the drill was forged and not modern. I do wonder just how many ships of this size were built during the Viking era. That is a lot of resources for one ship. The person that had a ship like that built would have to be extremely wealthy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4stermyr_chest www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/reviews/g1024/whats-inside-a-viking-tool-chest/?slide=7 These are just a few links to articles on the tool chests. The popular mechanics one has pictures of the find I was thinking of. I've seen things on youtube from woodworkers who looked over the tools.
I am trying to understand the economics of these ships. Their production required a substantial social structure to provide the industrial support needed to build such a ship; much less a fleet of such ships. Someone was: * harvesting timber; * splitting the logs; * making lumber; * mining iron ore; * smelting iron ore into iron; * forging iron into nails, rivets, and clench bolts; * building and maintaining the ship-building shed; * creating the tools for the miners, the lumberjacks, the smelters, the blacksmiths, and the shipbuilders; * producing the hemp; * producing the tar; * making the sails; * etc.
The builders were the warriors as well. Physical work for fitness. The key thing to remember is that 100 men working on specialised tasks can build more ships than a modern bunch of enthusiasts.
@michael ryan Think of a Marine in aviation maintenance - they went to recruit training and basic infantry, went to A-school for their rate, and C-school. Not only are they proficient in combat, but also in maintaining aircraft engines. It can be applied to Vikings as we are certainly not the first to come up with this idea. In the military you get your journeyman after four years, or eight thousand hours in your rate/mos, if in a trade applicable rate/mos. USMAP provides a way to translate your experience worked in the military to a journeyman level. It is possible. Plus, Marines have PT outside of work frequently, so their work, PT, and school combined makes them handy. Again, we're not the first to think of this concept, so the idea of the warriors building their ships they use for warfare is a likely possibility. Keep in mind that it was their way of life, and if that's the case, you can become very dedicated to it, just as you are with your journeyman.
@michael ryan What I'm saying is, it's very possible to train someone in multiple fields of construction/maintenance. Keep in mind that this was their way of life, and had to adapt, so it isn't shooting for the stars to think that they would be proficient in additional crafts. If it's your way of life, you become very motivated, and especially if this is your whole life. They probably had people specifically trained for different jobs, but there's no doubt everyone was similarly trained.
Yes it was a large colective effort, but it was worth it a ship will bring loots of economic advantages as a trade, colony or viking (pirate/plunder) ship.
This video I initially saw on TV, Cottage Channel but my recording is gone so i now have found this video on You Tube and I am delighted!! It is such a wonderful story of an old craft revised in Norway. Thank you, You Tube, and all of the creators of this fabulous ship!
This has me wondering, how many of these could a settlement even make in a year? These ships would be like the equivalent of buying a car more expensive than your house lol. These ships are just awesome. I did not understand why these ships were referred to as hi-tech or advanced until you guys explained the Clinker Build and how shallow that ship's drop into the water is (i don't know the term). Super advanced for their time!
Such a phenominal project, the skill and patience in building such a fabulous craft is wonderful, the old skills are not dead, just updated! So well done folks, cannot wait to see finished ship! Thanks for sharing this.
It is just amazing what these craftsmen can do with their bare hands and a few tools. I did not see any CNC machines but just clamps, chisel, ax, and hammers. Truly amazing.
The gods truly inspired the Viking craftsman to make such things of grace and beauty a 1000 years ago. And anyone who has seen one for them selves knows what I mean.
When they made a Viking ship in Denmark, they used tools from around the year 1000. In the Viking Age, it is believed that this work could be completed in 7 months. In addition came the production of tar, ropes, sails, colors etc. It took the Viking Ship Museum's boat builders 4 years (2000 - 2004) to build the Sea Stallion. The museum spent the same number of hours, but these were distributed among fewer men and over several years.
Vikings landed all over the world. North America and New Zealand for a few. But because Vikings are white in a world where the privileged race is pushing for total eradication, it cannot be discussed or investigated how vikings traveled so far. The main motive is the non-white indigenous people's movement the privileged race is empowering as part of their goal for world domination.
@@TheBelrick New Zealand was not discovered until the 13th century. The Vikings were never anywhere near New Zealand. You don't need to reference them to evidence your point.
AMAZING. Although using traditional techniques, these incredible craftsmen use some modern tools and equipment. Now imagine how 10th century Vikings built such an awesome boat...
Fascinating. The joinery involved here is incredible. Love woodworking of any kind. I thought I read somewhere that corded lashings were used on the strakes in lieu of trunnails and clenched rivets. Is that correct or did the techniques change over the years and size of the ship? 35 meters is quite long and long wooden sailing ships in the 1600s and 1700s had problems with hogging of the keel?
It is not "The largest viking ship in the world ". It is *The largest viking ship built in modern time*. "Roskilde 6" built around 1025 exceeds the length by around two meters.
Roskilde 6 may be a smidgen longer (36 m according to the Roskilde Museum web page, so maybe only 1 m longer) but this ship is twice as wide, so it is in fact much larger. However, that also makes it a questionable example of a longship, as it it wider than any known Viking ship - the really long longships were much more narrow - this ship is like a scaled up smaller vessel, perhaps based on the Gokstad ship dimensions or something.
Its not the largest its the longest, and its the one we have found so far, God really knows what giants they actually made, as its made of wood most of it is gone. Chinese had some monstrous behemoths in their times, with texts suggesting they even made it to America and returned successfully.
@@SMGJohn Yes, and the largest direct replica built is the Myklebust Ship replica, but they based their ship on sketchy evidence and it may in fact be bigger than the original ship, which is not preserved in the way the Gokstad ship is. They just scaled up the Gokstad and Oseberg ships to 30m and 6m width. That's how big their replica is, which makes it larger than The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, but considerably smaller than Dragon Harald Fairhair. It just baffles me that people wanna spend so much time and energy, use so much traditional workmanship and construction methods, yet make a complete fantasy ship not based on anything known - which is definitely the case with Dragon Harald Fairhair. Maybe they have the Thor Heyerdahl way of thinking; maybe they just wanted to prove that it _could_ have happened, and I guess they did prove that, but that doesn't mean it _did_ happen! The possibility of something is not evidence of something.
@Senapspiser Just wondering, just to make it clear. So longships are the ones vikings would typically use for raids and such? While wider were more for cargo/trading and exploration?
They took wooden shipbuilding just about as far as it can go.Not only that they are incredibly beautifull.The whole thing is really a work of art as well as being extremely practical.Even today we could learn a lot from them.
Probably the technical process of obtaining copper is more complicated than iron. That is a question to the official history - Why then the Copper Age was "before" the Iron Age?
The problem isn't with the nails rusting away. It is that the salt water reacts with the iron in the wood, causing the wood to rot out. I forget the technics term.
This was like a space ship compared to the ships a thousand years ago! Absolutely amazing, how did they achieve this in such a short time so long ago? Seems like the gods where on their side!
I had the pleasure and privilege to work on the building of a replica of the Skuldelev 6 (much smaller than this one!) around the same time this was being constructed. Watching this video really reminded me of how fascinating that project was to be a part of, watching the ship come together over the months and all the intricacies.
It's the building of ships like these that gives a perspective on why sailors and seamen attached a life or sentience to their ships. I can't imagine how long this project would have taken without some of the modern equipment they used. The biggest thing to me is just trying to do the whole clinking operation without a powered drill.
If my memory is correct. The vikingship Museum in Roskilde Denmark, where they build the ships with the same tools and techniques as they did in the viking age, they have calculated that it would take around 10 men 100 days to build one ship.
Wow...that's some pretty neat engineering and craftsmanship....i can see why the Vikings were so advanced and after building a few of these ships...they decided to go out and recoup some costs...plundering around the seas.
この船はどれくらいの大きさですか？ ヴァイキングのロングシップは全長２０ｍぐらいが限界だったと聞いていますが、この船は３０ｍ以上ありそうです。 How big is this boat? I have heard that the maximum length of a Viking longship was about 20 metres, but this ship looks to be over 30 metres.
You should check out the instragram page of the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. They get into detail how everything is done and they use the same tools to be historically accurate.
I know it’s a joke, but it isn’t really safe to take a vessel of this size into the North Sea. They were designed for naval combat close to home, and were unsafe to use in very large waves. The large crew requirement also makes supplying an ocean crossing difficult. The ships used in the Viking raids were smaller, narrower and deeper.
@@luxborealis wow dude, I didn’t know that. I assumed that a bigger boat was more protected from rough seas? Also I figured they’d sail it along the French coast and cross near Dover.
@@Inquisitor_Vex dont count on that nonsense, he has no clue. Of couse that longboat can sail any sea. Our ancestors crossed the North Atlantic thousands of times trading with Greenland, during three hundred years! In our time exact copies succesfully crossed the Atlantic several times.
@@luxborealis Please keep your ignorant nonsense to yourself. These constructions are perfectly seaworthy vessels, which has been proven several times by crosssing the Atlantic Ocean!
It was not speed that was important , they would go at about 3mph or on a good day with the sail set 8 mph , ( 4.5 to 13 kph ) . The later figure is with the sail set and with the wind behind . Most of the time they would be rowed . And it was not till quite late, that is in the 8 th century that they did have a sail. Not until very late in the Norseman's history, would they have other ships attack them . The important thing was they could travel long distances. And were comparatively safe . On test with a modern copy, 20 men , which is a ton ) with the hull full half full of water , moving from side to side could not upset it .
so, two years old, I generally never bump old posts like this, but a klinker built katamaran? That I'd like to see! I have also been thinking about how to make use of the benefits the viking ship hull had, with new innovations. But I'm no boat builder
@@stianberg5645 I have seen some connected in the middle by a beam and tied down with rope to give some flexibility so thats the plan. I'm not a boat builder either just seems like a fun project to try.
@@Bshwag I see! What ideas will you draw on from the klinker-tradition? Or did you mean you got inspired by just watching boat building? I'd totally understand the mere inspiration, watching someone do their art of craftmanship is inspiring!
@@stianberg5645 really it's just boat building I enjoy building things in general. I'm using mostly ply wood but the prow and keel beam are basically big scarf joints I'm trying to make it as light as possible and in a way that lets me take it apart and move by hand. The final dimensions will be 24ft long by 12 feet wide. I also figured if I made it stiff it would break more easily so I'm trying to build in as much flexibility as I can. That idea came from viking long ships, They bend and flex in heavy waves.
Have watched my grandfather and uncles building clinker boats in days not so long past it's a beutiful process just watching brings the smell of timber fresh worked. Well done all involved skills worth preserving making sutch an utterly beutiful ship
an eccentric millionaire dude who watched a lot of history channel and thought "vikings are cool i want to dress up as one and hire people to build a ship for me" no joke thats honestly what happened.
Amazing, wish the video would have shown the ship brought to completion. I think there was a lot more a lot of people would like to have seen about this project.
I have been following Acorn to Arabella for years now. 'Victoria', the ship they bought for parts, had 'iron sickness everywhere an iron bolt was. There was so little wood that did not have iron sickness, that only small bits were able to be reused.Can I ask, why doom the ship from the beginning like this? Why did you not use bronze rods for all of this? I am going to bet that you will tell me it is not historically accurate, so it was out of the question... Also, Clinking over this side of the pond is called peening . Hence, a ball peen hammer... Thanks
Regarding shipbuilding ---- it seems to me that Great Britain "ruled the waves" for centuries, because of the many "uninvited guests" who came to England from Scandinavia during the earlier period of 793 AD through about 1100 AD.
you can, in Bjørkedalen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. the last few who actually can this lives there. they are getting old so they hope for people to come and learn from them before the techniques die out with them.
Kinda shocked they used steel (iron) nails instead of the traditional and far superior copper nails to fasten the planking. Steel will corrode where the copper does not.
Copper nails were a major technological development of the 18th. century. The Royal Navy got tired of paying for copper plates that fell off when they reacted with iron nails. (Galvanic corrosion, not then understood.) The major vendor of copper plates had to round up all the smiths he could find to develop a way to make nails from a soft metal like copper. See www.rogerknight.org/pdf/The%20Introduction%20of%20Copper%20Sheathing.pdf
No. Its not. Check into it. Copper lasts far longer than iron because it does not rust. Iron fastened boats come into our shop all the time with lose and rotten planks because they were fastened with iron, and they leave with copper... if iron was the best choice, we would still be using it instead of the copper.
It seems to be built in a very similar way to the Saxon boat at Sutton Hoo. Is it or are there obvious differences that are apparent to a causal observer?
It took 10 men with modern equipment about 20 months .. proud of Floki done it in two episodes
do not underestimate Floki
Probably would be less time in the old days...simply because they made boats all the time as a lifestyle so it was easy after the 100th time.
Hahah!
To be fair... Floki's was about 1/5th the size of this beast (and he always seemed to be ALONE) how did this show even become popular, nevermind get made - realism out the window lol
Skeeeggold scaaaalmöld skildis ro klofnir...m
@@stefanwiebers9991 haha YEEESSS
As a carpenter and a kayaker I can appreciate the level of craftsmanship that has gone into this ship. Using the traditional methods of ship construction it is going to be a masterpiece and a source of pride for all involved.
The largest viking ship are built
*England starts sweating* :
aye
England: *Um* *no* *we* *have* *the* *HMS* *Victory*
Well tourism by that time was also rather dangerous, and unfortunate tourists risked being skinned and nailed to a church-door! ;-)
Well little more then sweating i Think that ship Also made me proud as a danish guy
@@fe02lix funny little fact, as an Englishman I'm very greatful for the Norwegians hard work in mastering the longboat, as when Vikings settled across Britian, they shared their ship building skills which lead the British to developing their own first naval fleet and an obsession of our own with ship building. Which eventually lead to the royal navy dominating the world. All started with the Viking longship, Crazy when you think about it like that.
Imagine doing this over a 1000 years ago. So impressive!
@Rob M viking age was between 790ad to 1100ad
@Rob M no we absolutely did not. rome and greece are much older
@Rob M jim duggan was so rude.i don't agree his saying that people must use steel nails to creat a big ship. We can use wood nails
@Rob M lol cant believe you tried to tussle with a historian
Rob M a very shit historian lmao 💀
TH-cam knows what i should see after searching so many videos of Valheim recently
Dude my feed is nothing but viking related videos now because of it lmao
@@AzjaVhera lmao same
Same here!!!
fr yo
Same here haha! Interesting how the algorithm works
AWESOME!!! Love the use of hand tools - excellent craftsmen. Much respect to the vikings who did this without modcons. Farmers, builders, shipwrights and warriors - real men!
Viking King: Hello, I'd like a ship made.
Jarl: Certainly Sir, I will round up the village.
There is one here in Kelowna BC Canada that was handbuilt many many years ago. It is sitting covered by tarps in a backyard of a lakefront home. It was built on the lake by the Jennens family and friends and taken to the coast and sailed to Greenland and then Newfoundland. It was about 20 meters long.
Should be preserved!
Amazing craftsmanship ... makes you appreciate how the original builders achieved what they did without all the modern equipment.
Slowly. Lol. And with a lot more backs.
It’s interesting because looks like every tool they used a hand powered version does exist
@@scottmaschino1927 The shipbuilders of the day built these ship's 4x faster than this project. They weren't slow at all.
That's not a ship. It's a work of art by master craftsman.
both
It's not a ship? Oh right
Nice work Floki.
It's a Norwegian dream. Each people have dreams their own way.
That’s what a ship is...
The Hollywood image of barbaric Vikings simply becomes laughable in the face of this degree of craftsmanship, and the social resources and organization that would have been needed to facilitate such construction and design.
I agree
hollywood is a humiliated and perverted circus that belittles so many cultures for its purpose. The real problem is that fake history does the exact same in order to hide the incompetence, failure and autocracies of certain governments.
Correct,
cranes ,protractor and planer have been used since BC.
No
Who really does? most modern day theories are based on old manuscripts and analysts of old artifacts. I'm certain a great deal of educated guessing has gone into what we think the ancients did.
Zzzz, a Norse tool box was found not too long ago. It was intact and full of tools. Most of them were easily recognizable by modern hand tool woodworkers. A lot of that stuff hasn't changed for centuries. Modern tools makers can mass produce these things with greater accuracy but the core tools haven't changed.
The main difference between the way we build things today and the medieval times is that we have detailed drawn plans. Medieval builders tended to start with a broad plan but the individual measurements were based off of the previous step. They didn't have rulers or standardized measurements. They would use things like string or story sticks to ensure consistency.
So, other than using a few things like modern drills and saws to save time, it looked like they stayed pretty true to the original methods as we understand it. Even at that, it looked like the bit they were using in the drill was forged and not modern. I do wonder just how many ships of this size were built during the Viking era. That is a lot of resources for one ship. The person that had a ship like that built would have to be extremely wealthy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A4stermyr_chest
www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/reviews/g1024/whats-inside-a-viking-tool-chest/?slide=7
These are just a few links to articles on the tool chests. The popular mechanics one has pictures of the find I was thinking of. I've seen things on youtube from woodworkers who looked over the tools.
Floki would be proud!
hope the tress they use are happy
Where each episode takes a month to film, or Floki doing it while drunk the whole time? Lol.
@What’s his face you know that guy shit you remember the siege equipment? itd take less than an episode.
Floki needs a kick in the head!
flok fyes!
Absolutely incredible this craftsmanship should never be lost .
I am trying to understand the economics of these ships. Their production required a substantial social structure to provide the industrial support needed to build such a ship; much less a fleet of such ships. Someone was:
* harvesting timber;
* splitting the logs;
* making lumber;
* mining iron ore;
* smelting iron ore into iron;
* forging iron into nails, rivets, and clench bolts;
* building and maintaining the ship-building shed;
* creating the tools for the miners, the lumberjacks, the smelters, the blacksmiths, and the shipbuilders;
* producing the hemp;
* producing the tar;
* making the sails;
* etc.
The builders were the warriors as well. Physical work for fitness. The key thing to remember is that 100 men working on specialised tasks can build more ships than a modern bunch of enthusiasts.
@michael ryan Think of a Marine in aviation maintenance - they went to recruit training and basic infantry, went to A-school for their rate, and C-school. Not only are they proficient in combat, but also in maintaining aircraft engines. It can be applied to Vikings as we are certainly not the first to come up with this idea. In the military you get your journeyman after four years, or eight thousand hours in your rate/mos, if in a trade applicable rate/mos. USMAP provides a way to translate your experience worked in the military to a journeyman level. It is possible. Plus, Marines have PT outside of work frequently, so their work, PT, and school combined makes them handy. Again, we're not the first to think of this concept, so the idea of the warriors building their ships they use for warfare is a likely possibility. Keep in mind that it was their way of life, and if that's the case, you can become very dedicated to it, just as you are with your journeyman.
@michael ryan What I'm saying is, it's very possible to train someone in multiple fields of construction/maintenance. Keep in mind that this was their way of life, and had to adapt, so it isn't shooting for the stars to think that they would be proficient in additional crafts. If it's your way of life, you become very motivated, and especially if this is your whole life. They probably had people specifically trained for different jobs, but there's no doubt everyone was similarly trained.
Yes it was a large colective effort, but it was worth it a ship will bring loots of economic advantages as a trade, colony or viking (pirate/plunder) ship.
Back when everyone had purpose
Amazing craftsmanship! And to think that so many similar ships like this were designed and built so many years ago is just mind boggling. Wow!
Having at one time in my life been a boatbuilder, I was enthralled with viewing this masterful, modern construction of a Viking ship.
Thank you
You can tell by the shape of the boat, very proud people.
This video I initially saw on TV, Cottage Channel but my recording is gone so i now have found this video on You Tube and I am delighted!! It is such a wonderful story of an old craft revised in Norway. Thank you, You Tube, and all of the creators of this fabulous ship!
me at 1AM: *scrolling youtube*
TH-cam: "Largest Viking Ship in The World"
me: Ok
Off
@@fe02lix Okay
It’s actually 1:17 AM
seeing this comment already liked by myself, curiously looking what it says and again the same situation, hahaha i cant
Watching this makes me appreciate history even more...and how amazing the craftsmanship of builders during this time in history...amazing
WhiTe PeOPlE DoN't HaVE HiSToRy
@@adonis1273 Not available to imbeciles. Crawl back in your basement.
@@adonis1273 go back to your mud hut
This has me wondering, how many of these could a settlement even make in a year? These ships would be like the equivalent of buying a car more expensive than your house lol. These ships are just awesome. I did not understand why these ships were referred to as hi-tech or advanced until you guys explained the Clinker Build and how shallow that ship's drop into the water is (i don't know the term). Super advanced for their time!
Such a phenominal project, the skill and patience in building such a fabulous craft is wonderful, the old skills are not dead, just updated!
So well done folks, cannot wait to see finished ship! Thanks for sharing this.
It’s amazing the quality and the craftsmanship, I hope this trade never dies 👍👍👍
It is just amazing what these craftsmen can do with their bare hands and a few tools. I did not see any CNC machines but just clamps, chisel, ax, and hammers. Truly amazing.
They also hand carved the diesel engine and the GPS navigation.
The gods truly inspired the Viking craftsman to make such things of grace and beauty a 1000 years ago. And anyone who has seen one for them selves knows what I mean.
Lol, don't take away from human ingenuity.
When they made a Viking ship in Denmark, they used tools from around the year 1000.
In the Viking Age, it is believed that this work could be completed in 7 months. In addition came the production of tar, ropes, sails, colors etc. It took the Viking Ship Museum's boat builders 4 years (2000 - 2004) to build the Sea Stallion. The museum spent the same number of hours, but these were distributed among fewer men and over several years.
Fascinating to see this ship being built. I was able to go aboard when it sailed to Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is a beautiful vessel.
Cool. Did it float? 😅
Why would they build it if it couldn't float.
@@RottenFlesh-we6nu A facetious comment as I was expecting to see it out on the water in the conclusion ✌🏼
I’m pretty sure they used green wood when they built those type of ships back then....
green wood forms curves and contours easier than dried....
I can't imagine trying to assemble a team of men with this level of skill. This was simply awe inspiring!
They say she's unsinkable!
She IS a fine ship, what is her name?
Tyrtanic my Jarl...
Vikings landed all over the world. North America and New Zealand for a few. But because Vikings are white in a world where the privileged race is pushing for total eradication, it cannot be discussed or investigated how vikings traveled so far. The main motive is the non-white indigenous people's movement the privileged race is empowering as part of their goal for world domination.
Bel Rick I want to learn more about this history before it is erased
@@TheBelrickexcuse me?
@@bebble985 what is wrong?
@@TheBelrick New Zealand was not discovered until the 13th century. The Vikings were never anywhere near New Zealand. You don't need to reference them to evidence your point.
Thanks for sharing and ponder getting rid of the horrible intrusive music! Best of luck!
AMAZING. Although using traditional techniques, these incredible craftsmen use some modern tools and equipment. Now imagine how 10th century Vikings built such an awesome boat...
Fascinating. The joinery involved here is incredible. Love woodworking of any kind. I thought I read somewhere that corded lashings were used on the strakes in lieu of trunnails and clenched rivets. Is that correct or did the techniques change over the years and size of the ship? 35 meters is quite long and long wooden sailing ships in the 1600s and 1700s had problems with hogging of the keel?
It is not "The largest viking ship in the world
". It is *The largest viking ship built in modern time*. "Roskilde 6" built around 1025 exceeds the length by around two meters.
Roskilde 6 may be a smidgen longer (36 m according to the Roskilde Museum web page, so maybe only 1 m longer) but this ship is twice as wide, so it is in fact much larger. However, that also makes it a questionable example of a longship, as it it wider than any known Viking ship - the really long longships were much more narrow - this ship is like a scaled up smaller vessel, perhaps based on the Gokstad ship dimensions or something.
@Senapspiser In any case, there are plans for building a Roskilde 6 replica, which will be the largest real Viking ship _replica_ .
Its not the largest its the longest, and its the one we have found so far, God really knows what giants they actually made, as its made of wood most of it is gone.
Chinese had some monstrous behemoths in their times, with texts suggesting they even made it to America and returned successfully.
@@SMGJohn Yes, and the largest direct replica built is the Myklebust Ship replica, but they based their ship on sketchy evidence and it may in fact be bigger than the original ship, which is not preserved in the way the Gokstad ship is. They just scaled up the Gokstad and Oseberg ships to 30m and 6m width. That's how big their replica is, which makes it larger than The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, but considerably smaller than Dragon Harald Fairhair.
It just baffles me that people wanna spend so much time and energy, use so much traditional workmanship and construction methods, yet make a complete fantasy ship not based on anything known - which is definitely the case with Dragon Harald Fairhair. Maybe they have the Thor Heyerdahl way of thinking; maybe they just wanted to prove that it _could_ have happened, and I guess they did prove that, but that doesn't mean it _did_ happen! The possibility of something is not evidence of something.
@Senapspiser Just wondering, just to make it clear. So longships are the ones vikings would typically use for raids and such? While wider were more for cargo/trading and exploration?
They took wooden shipbuilding just about as far as it can go.Not only that they are incredibly beautifull.The whole thing is really a work of art as well as being extremely practical.Even today we could learn a lot from them.
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Historically accurate perhaps buts its a shame that they didn't use copper nails for longevity. The iron nails will rust out.
If they are truly iron (not steel called iron), they will last longer than you might thnk.
if the nails are wrought iron they will normally even outlast the wood of the draken.
The real ones used iron
Probably the technical process of obtaining copper is more complicated than iron. That is a question to the official history - Why then the Copper Age was "before" the Iron Age?
The problem isn't with the nails rusting away. It is that the salt water reacts with the iron in the wood, causing the wood to rot out. I forget the technics term.
This was like a space ship compared to the ships a thousand years ago! Absolutely amazing, how did they achieve this in such a short time so long ago? Seems like the gods where on their side!
Kann mann bygge hustak til mini hus akurat somm på Hamar bare bygge samme desain til mini hus i Norge og hytter med vikinhebåt tak går det?
58 years and now I know the meaning of clinker built, c'est la vie.
maybe, its also 'clincher' built because the boards 'clinch' each other...
That is just one of the most impressive builds I've ever seen. Amazing.
I had the pleasure and privilege to work on the building of a replica of the Skuldelev 6 (much smaller than this one!) around the same time this was being constructed. Watching this video really reminded me of how fascinating that project was to be a part of, watching the ship come together over the months and all the intricacies.
Any video of the final boat in water?
I’m Sorry .., I found them😂👍♥️
It's the building of ships like these that gives a perspective on why sailors and seamen attached a life or sentience to their ships. I can't imagine how long this project would have taken without some of the modern equipment they used. The biggest thing to me is just trying to do the whole clinking operation without a powered drill.
If my memory is correct. The vikingship Museum in Roskilde Denmark, where they build the ships with the same tools and techniques as they did in the viking age, they have calculated that it would take around 10 men 100 days to build one ship.
Wow...that's some pretty neat engineering and craftsmanship....i can see why the Vikings were so advanced and after building a few of these ships...they decided to go out and recoup some costs...plundering around the seas.
I could had watched this for hours...
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Maybe even hours...
Yes, but that's a shorter timespan... It would be just hours.
check TALLY HO , if you like wooden boats...!!!
Of course we did! That's one of my favorite channels, i can reccomend it too for those who aren't familiar with hi's channel yet.
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What a fantastic build. Absolutely awe struck. Thank you. 🌎☀️🌒
Good to see the use of traditional viking tools being used too.
so did it launch or what?!
Had to watch this one again! It's still awesome! Thank you.
この船はどれくらいの大きさですか？
ヴァイキングのロングシップは全長２０ｍぐらいが限界だったと聞いていますが、この船は３０ｍ以上ありそうです。
How big is this boat?
I have heard that the maximum length of a Viking longship was about 20 metres, but this ship looks to be over 30 metres.
It would be great if this video was longer, I wonder if the building process was filmed in more detail. Still a really interesting 10 minutes.
You should check out the instragram page of the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde. They get into detail how everything is done and they use the same tools to be historically accurate.
I imagine that once they’ve built the fleet, they’ll get the navy to man it for a tour? Would love to see this float up the Themes!
Byrhtnoth would certainly disagree with you...
I know it’s a joke, but it isn’t really safe to take a vessel of this size into the North Sea. They were designed for naval combat close to home, and were unsafe to use in very large waves. The large crew requirement also makes supplying an ocean crossing difficult. The ships used in the Viking raids were smaller, narrower and deeper.
@@luxborealis wow dude, I didn’t know that. I assumed that a bigger boat was more protected from rough seas? Also I figured they’d sail it along the French coast and cross near Dover.
@@Inquisitor_Vex dont count on that nonsense, he has no clue.
Of couse that longboat can sail any sea.
Our ancestors crossed the North Atlantic thousands of times trading with Greenland, during three hundred years!
In our time exact copies succesfully crossed the Atlantic several times.
@@luxborealis Please keep your ignorant nonsense to yourself.
These constructions are perfectly seaworthy vessels, which has been proven several times by crosssing the Atlantic Ocean!
Now I understand why nothing on the seas could out-pace these ships! A must watch for anyone who has worked with wood.
It was not speed that was important , they would go at about 3mph or on a good day with the sail set 8 mph , ( 4.5 to 13 kph ) . The later figure is with the sail set and with the wind behind . Most of the time they would be rowed . And it was not till quite late, that is in the 8 th century that they did have a sail. Not until very late in the Norseman's history, would they have other ships attack them . The important thing was they could travel long distances. And were comparatively safe . On test with a modern copy, 20 men , which is a ton ) with the hull full half full of water , moving from side to side could not upset it .
@@welshpete12 No, they can reach 20 m/s actually with the wind right. It's also the very low draft that made them so practical
@@welshpete12 They had sails way earlier than the 8th century on the longships.
You act like the trireme isn't fast
how much did it cost to build this beauty?? she's gorgeous!
Absolutely beautiful , I'm planing a catamaran and this gives me some ideas.
so, two years old, I generally never bump old posts like this, but a klinker built katamaran? That I'd like to see! I have also been thinking about how to make use of the benefits the viking ship hull had, with new innovations. But I'm no boat builder
@@stianberg5645 I have seen some connected in the middle by a beam and tied down with rope to give some flexibility so thats the plan. I'm not a boat builder either just seems like a fun project to try.
@@Bshwag I see! What ideas will you draw on from the klinker-tradition? Or did you mean you got inspired by just watching boat building?
I'd totally understand the mere inspiration, watching someone do their art of craftmanship is inspiring!
@@stianberg5645 really it's just boat building I enjoy building things in general. I'm using mostly ply wood but the prow and keel beam are basically big scarf joints I'm trying to make it as light as possible and in a way that lets me take it apart and move by hand. The final dimensions will be 24ft long by 12 feet wide. I also figured if I made it stiff it would break more easily so I'm trying to build in as much flexibility as I can. That idea came from viking long ships, They bend and flex in heavy waves.
Is the tar used in the joints Stockholm pine tar? Or is it pitch?
Incredible wooden boat builders. Nice, that everyone is mentioned with his forename. Nice work.
Fascinating. I'm wondering what type of wood was used for the various parts.
No wonder Floki loved using one handed weapons Clinking all day long
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Floki?i dont no floki and i am good in history !Floki what?
@@mamorot7110 its from a show called the Vikings.
Have watched my grandfather and uncles building clinker boats in days not so long past it's a beutiful process just watching brings the smell of timber fresh worked. Well done all involved skills worth preserving making sutch an utterly beutiful ship
maravilhosa obra de engenharia !!!! wonderfull!!!!
Imagine doing this over a 1000 years ago. So impressive!. Muito lindo o trabalho de todos vocês,parabéns .
There used to be an hour long version of this build, but it was presumably deleted.
Bet the Vikings would have loved a makita cordless.Fascinating video .Well done lads.
And the metal clamps.
Where does the money come from to fund such an awesome endeavor?
an eccentric millionaire dude who watched a lot of history channel and thought "vikings are cool i want to dress up as one and hire people to build a ship for me"
no joke thats honestly what happened.
What size electric motor would be needed to replace the 100 rowers,
This is awesome! I can’t believe navies were built from wood and nail!
How can you not believe that?!?
Brilliant craftsmanship. 👍🇬🇧
Who got here watching Valheim videos?
What an awesome build. Brings back memories of my boatbuilding apprenticeship and the clinkers on a very much smaller version....
Amazing, wish the video would have shown the ship brought to completion. I think there was a lot more a lot of people would like to have seen about this project.
Молодцы, грандиозный проект.
Amazine skills hard to believe viking could do with hand tools
The vikings got their boats flat-packed from Ikea. This video is a pack of lies.
GREAT WORK! What types are used?
God that brought back memories of having to hold a hammer as my dad did the clinking, Under age and unpaid the swine :)
I have been following Acorn to Arabella for years now. 'Victoria', the ship they bought for parts, had 'iron sickness everywhere an iron bolt was. There was so little wood that did not have iron sickness, that only small bits were able to be reused.Can I ask, why doom the ship from the beginning like this? Why did you not use bronze rods for all of this? I am going to bet that you will tell me it is not historically accurate, so it was out of the question... Also, Clinking over this side of the pond is called peening . Hence, a ball peen hammer... Thanks
Watch out Lindisfarne, visitors are coming ;-)
We'll sink the f###er!!!!
OldeJanner like ya did the last time, sure
What kind of wood are using?
Wow that’s awesome 👏😃👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
i was wondering about the use of iron nails and not bronze ? and how you'd stop them from rusting out and rotting the planks cheers
Taking a more than one man to build ship:
Floki: imma show em what real chads do
how many pidet's will be implemented? and will it have a hovercraft garage?
Klinkebygget has nothing to do with the nails, but is the partial overlap of each board. Still, awesome craftsmanship.
yes you don't need nails you can also use ropes
Great work. Would be nice to see it somewhere.
My ancestors! The greatest ship builders in the world
those would be my ancestors dear, the Phoenicians.. cheers
@@everlastingbluesin lol if you think so
er det en knarr?
Regarding shipbuilding ---- it seems to me that Great Britain "ruled the waves" for centuries, because of the many "uninvited guests" who came to England from Scandinavia during the earlier period of 793 AD through about 1100 AD.
Men i helvete. Finnes ikke denne på norsk da? Hva gjør det med kulturen vår?
0:54 omg he looks so much like Chris Pratt
Excellent - Thanks !
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7.00 those arent wooden nails,,its called DOWELS
Those dowels in shipbuilding are called tree nails (trennels).
Is it in the water yet?
Ohhh love the AOE music theme
I thought I'm the only one :)
ok, great project but where is it now?
I am surprised seing iron bolts linking the hull planks. Is that faithful to the practices of the time ?
I would have given anything to learn how to build these ships from professionals.
you can, in Bjørkedalen, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. the last few who actually can this lives there. they are getting old so they hope for people to come and learn from them before the techniques die out with them.
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Awesome!
Not to be discouraging, but the Vikings did it without power tools! Amazing. I"m still impressed by these guys though.
Kinda shocked they used steel (iron) nails instead of the traditional and far superior copper nails to fasten the planking. Steel will corrode where the copper does not.
Copper nails were a major technological development of the 18th. century. The Royal Navy got tired of paying for copper plates that fell off when they reacted with iron nails. (Galvanic corrosion, not then understood.) The major vendor of copper plates had to round up all the smiths he could find to develop a way to make nails from a soft metal like copper. See www.rogerknight.org/pdf/The%20Introduction%20of%20Copper%20Sheathing.pdf
Iron IS traditional! Copper is not superiour since it's soft.
No. Its not. Check into it. Copper lasts far longer than iron because it does not rust. Iron fastened boats come into our shop all the time with lose and rotten planks because they were fastened with iron, and they leave with copper... if iron was the best choice, we would still be using it instead of the copper.
Copper was expensive.
It seems to be built in a very similar way to the Saxon boat at Sutton Hoo. Is it or are there obvious differences that are apparent to a causal observer?
I clocked all the expansion joints for when that timber meets water. Wish I was involved.