Viking ship comes home to Ireland

A reconstruction of a 900 years old Irish built Viking ship has arrived in Ireland. The Sea Stallion of Glendalough, the biggest reconstruction of a Viking long ship in the world and crewed by 65 people, put into shore at Clogherhead, in County Louth.
After sailing 1,000 miles from the Danish port of Roskilde, via Norway and the Orkneys, it is expected to arrive in Dublin early on Tuesday and will be put on show in the National Museum.
“The arrival in Dublin will be a homecoming of sorts as the Sea Stallion is a reconstruction of a ship, the Skuldelev 2, built in Dublin in 1042. Dublin was founded by Scandinavian settlers and in the 11th century was a flourishing trading centre with a large Scandinavian population and close ties to others parts of the Viking world.” said a Danish tourism spokesman.
The Skuldelev 2 is believed to have sunk in Roskilde Fjord, near Copenhagen, some 30 years later. The remains of this ship, as well as four others, were excavated in the 1960s.
The reconstruction was carried out over four years at the boatyard attached to the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum.
employing similar materials, tools and techniques used to build the original ship, around 300 oak trees were needed, along with more than 7,000 nails, rivets and spikes.
Viking raiders first landed in Ireland more than 1,200 years ago. They came exclusively from Norway and the first recorded raid was in 795 on Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast, where the local church was burned.
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