Model of the Ship of vikings

The maximum technical achievement of vikings were their fighting ships. The narrow skeleton of such vessel was very convenient for the approach to coast and fast passage on the rivers and lakes. lighter vessels especially suited for a sudden attack; they could be carried from one river to another to bypass thresholds, falls, dams and strengthenings. Lack of these courts{vessels} consist that they have been insufficiently adapted for long navigations in the high sea that was compensated by navigating art of vikings.

By such ship Lejf Ericson has reached America.

At construction of model materials are used: the Pear, iron, a cotton.

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