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Viking Ship Model

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Sue Babcock in Research, ships

The Vikings invaded and conquered Normandy a couple of centuries before the battle at Hastings. The Vikings also were frequent invaders of England, and I image that many of the English were descendent from these unrelenting warriors. So the battle of Hastings in 1066 was a battle between fierce men with similar ancestries and with […]

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The Viking Langskip (Longship)

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Sue Babcock in ships

My search for 1066 has led me to a wide range of topics, including “what did they eat,” “how did they light fires,” and “what were their homes like.” My latest search is to learn what their ships were like. The Bayeux tapestry depicts several ships and from what I’ve been able to learn, many […]

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