Dragon Harald Fairhair; The world's largest Viking longship

World's largest Viking longship, sailing past Avaldsnes Norway.
Verdens største vikingskip, langskipet Draken Harald Hårfagre, seiler forbi Avaldsnes og sørover Nordvegen (aka Karmsund).

[patrickmurphy]

Beautiful long boat . Hilsen fra Wexford (viksfjord)

[ShuswapViking]

Absolutely beautiful! I'm sure Fairhair would have been proud!!!!

[TJSupercool]

As a born and raised "Norseman", I say; well done guys, you make me proud to be a Norwegian! :-)

[cpullic]

Was fortunate enough to see her last summer @ Mystic Harbor Ct 👍🏼🍻

[thorviking]

My family is from the island of Bokn very near to Karmoy, very proud about that, and this ship ofcorse. beautiful.

[OrionXIII]

Just a lovely, lovely ship!!

Orion

[jrgennielsen]

In Roskilde, Denmark museum they have the remains of a Vikingship of 36 meters !

[TheHashomer]

Wonderful!
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the Highlands of Scotlands, the Lord of the Isles (Somerled), and through him to Norse Jarls & kings of Mann, Northumbria, & Norway; including Harald Fairhair (my 31st great-grandfather).
I would love to sail on it! Thank you for sharing this.

[Pandamonium]

Beautiful .Power and grace manifest in movement.

I hope to find out that Fairhair himself was as truly wrought, now you ve inspired some
historical curiosity.
I am an American living in Arizona. However, my paternal grandmother s maiden name was Zilke.
My eldest son is named Odin.
Thanks for sharing this video.

[Oddi]

I've heard that they made both huge and small ships using the same technique. They where quickly built, and if they needed a ship to go in shallow water, they built them short and wide so that they wouldn't go as deep, and that they could carry it. But if they needed the ship to go over seas, they built them long and thinner (compared to the length) so they would go deeper and not so easily tip over in case of storms.

[xdemmons]

I saw 3 replicas sail into Boston years back, the Gaia, Saga Siglar and a third one. They were pretty amazing but not as big as this one. I hoped to see some replicas in Oslo on my visits there, but there were none.

[mattorama]

A Viking longship with huge construction cranes in the background is kind of a mind fuck.

[LandersWorkshop]

I think the first toll booths for waterways were up near the Black Sea and at Constaninople.

[frogbear]

Oh how badly I want to be on that ship...

[LudwigVaanArthans]

May I ask what the soundtrack used was? :D
It does go well with the footage, but now I want to know what songs are too XD

[runulfrraui]

you should make a poster out of that pic. det hadde blitt nydelig. og snakk om kontrast. setter en femmer på Draken jeg da.

[JRT]

Do you work with the ship? Like building or testing it?

[steenjacobsen]

wonder why they never show the Ironage diesel

[Robertlynschultz]

100 Warriors manned a logship of this size... some sagas tell of ships that required 200-250 Warriors for the crew. I really don't see a problem with portage with manpower of such numbers. It wouldn't have been easy... but very doable.

[Jeshua]

What song is this? It's very familiar.