| In 875, Alfred went to sea with a small naval force and on the south coast of Wessex met 7 Viking longships and defeated them. |
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| They raided and pillaged, then headed back across the North Sea in their longships. |
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| The Scandinavian invaders sailed up neighbouring Loch Long and hauled their longships from the landing place at Arrochar over the pass to Tarbet. |
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| The terrors of the early 21st century will be as remote to their lives as Viking longships are to ours. |
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| Eleventh-century England is seen as intellectually isolated, rescued from barbarity only by Norman longships. |
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| Wherries evolved from the original Viking longships of 800 years ago, and when you see them compared it's clear they haven't changed much. |
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| Nordic fighters armed with swords and battleaxes took to the streets, while Viking longships cruised on the River Ouse. |
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| If you ask anybody what their image of the Vikings is it would be of hairy men with blades and axes on board longships. |
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| He would then live in peace and prosperity, safe from the ferocious Danish longships. |
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| Below the empty windows, waves crash against rocks that bear the keel marks of Viking longships. |
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| The particular skills and methods employed in making longships are still used worldwide, often with modern adaptations. |
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| The Viking longships were the epitome of naval power in their time and were highly valued possessions. |
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| While longships were used by the Norse in warfare, they were mostly used as troop transports, not warships. |
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| In the tenth century, longships would sometimes be tied together in offshore battles to form a steady platform for infantry warfare. |
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| The most common way to classify longships is by the number of rowing positions on board. |
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| In the longships the keel was made up of several sections spliced together and fastened with treenails. |
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| Even though no longship sail has been found, accounts and depictions verify that longships had square sails. |
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| Since the discovery of the original longships in the 1800s, many boat builders have built Viking ship replicas. |
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| At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort. |
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| Many historians, archaeologists and adventurers have reconstructed longships in an attempt to understand how they worked. |
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| The longships will be racing then from King's Staith and the riverside will be full of other Vikings and traders. |
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| Several of the original longships built in the Viking Age have been excavated by archaeologists. |
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| In their superior longships, they raided, traded, and established colonies and outposts on the sea's coasts. |
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| In 896, he ordered the construction of a small fleet, perhaps a dozen or so longships that, at 60 oars, were twice the size of Viking warships. |
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| In the summer of 1015, Cnut's fleet set sail for England with a Danish army of perhaps 10,000 in 200 longships. |
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| The expedition also provided valuable new information on Viking longships and society. |
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| Oak planking was common on high status Viking longships in the 9th and 10th centuries. |
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| The Vikings, for example, traveled up the Vistula and the Oder in their longships. |
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| The Vikings used their longships to travel vast distances and attain certain tactical advantages in battle. |
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| The use of the longships ended when technology changed, and ships began to be constructed using saws instead of axes. |
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| A Viking named Stjerner Oddi compiled a chart showing the direction of sunrise and sunset, which enabled navigators to sail longships from place to place with ease. |
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| While earlier times had seen larger and taller longships in service, by this time the authorities had also gone over to other types of ships for warfare. |
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| By the 11th and 12th centuries, European fighting ships were built with raised platforms fore and aft, from which archers could shoot down into the relatively low longships. |
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| When the longships moored along the coast, they sent the slaves ashore to run along the waterfront to gauge whether it was safe for the rest of the crew to follow. |
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| His campaigns abroad meant the tables of Viking supremacy were stacked in favour of the English, turning the prows of the longships towards Scandinavia. |
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| Longships were used extensively by the Leidang, the Scandinavian defence fleets. |
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| Longships had hooks for oars to fit into, but smaller oars were also used, with crooks or bends to be used as oarlocks. |
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| Longships can be classified into a number of different types, depending on size, construction details, and prestige. |
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| Longships were fitted with oars along almost the entire length of the boat itself. |
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| Longships for the most part used two different kinds of anchors. |
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