Preserved to the present Famous discoveries of Viking ships at Gokstad and Oseberg, Norway, in 1880 and 1906, respectively, established the classic image of the dragon-headed warship. Longships ...

Bristling with spears and swords, Viking and Slav reenactors face off ... as the crowd belts out old songs of sea kings and dragon ships, the torchbearers tow the vessel into a walled field.

The Vikings built fast ‘dragon-ships’ and ‘long ships ... and furs to keep warm. Viking long ships could sail in shallow water so they could travel up rivers as well as across the ...

but evidence suggests that dragon heads and metal ship vanes (similar to weather vanes) adorned other Viking ships. A Viking fleet nears home with slaves and other plunder in this imagined scene ...

The strakes of the ship were much thinner than most people realize, often only 0.78-1.18 inches thick (almost paper thin). Some Viking longships were decorated to look like a dragon or a sea snake ...

Growing frustration with passengers as Viking Ocean’s newest ship remains docked with weather and technical issues to blame.