Tourist takes photo of Viking Ships. The Viking Ship Museum. Roskilde, Denmark. The Viking Ship Museum represents the world largest exhibits of Viking longboats from around year 1000. The exhibit boats are found at the nearby Skuldelev where locals filled them with stones and sunk them in order to block enemy ships from entering the fjord. Five of these ships where recovered in 1962 and are on display in the museum, all in remarkable good shape. The largest had a creew of about 80 warriors....
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Tourist takes photo of Viking Ships. The Viking Ship Museum. Roskilde, Denmark. The Viking Ship Museum represents the world largest exhibits of Viking longboats from around year 1000. The exhibit boats are found at the nearby Skuldelev where locals filled them with stones and sunk them in order to block enemy ships from entering the fjord. Five of these ships where recovered in 1962 and are on display in the museum, all in remarkable good shape. The largest had a creew of about 80 warriors. During summer time replicas of viking ships sails on the fjord an it is possible for vistors to take a short trip on one of them. Vikingeskipmuseet is an offical top rated tourist attraktion..
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