Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research

Roskilde makes up for in interaction for what it lacks in ship detail

I was at the Viking ship museum in Roskilde Denmark earlier today. While I think the ships in the Oslo Viking museum are a bit cooler, as they are better preserved, what’s impressive about the Roskilde museum is the length of some of the war ships.

Most of these ships were scuttled in Roskilde Fjord in the 11th century as part of a defensive strategy against an incoming attack. There is little evidence of an actual attack on Roskilde at the time, so they may have been part of a defensive planning exercise. Who doesn’t love some good historical navy/military strategy though?

The museum has archeologists on staff who are still digging pieces up out of Roskilde Fjord as well as craftsman who are building full size replicas. One of the ships the Sea Stallion recently sailed to Ireland. Even more impressive is that this museum actually conducts full day lessons teaching you how to sail & row Viking ships of various sizes!

Shot a brief video of one small ship coming in. They had just taken down the sail when I started filming on my Flip Mino.

Would have been nice to take a class, but I didn’t have too much time as I had to take care of a call with a client in PST zone. Wondering how much of an issue the 6-9 hour time difference would be if I spent more time over here?

-Tom

PS. A few other pics I took at the museum:

 
Couldn’t resist a self portrait

Supply ship deck model

Deck model w/ shields

Large warship model

Assault Force Inventory

The bow

Code dictionary for VERY old unstructured data

Some Viking routes