A new excavation at Søften, near Lisbjerg, has revealed an extensive production environment that may have supplied Viking Age Aarhus with textiles and other craft products.
Category: sails
Viking Age Textile Production
The story goes that a Viking learned to keep a stoic face if their ship was lost. However, if the ship sank together with the sails, he cried. New book tells the story of the production system and the economy of the textiles in Viking Age Society
Viking Sails and How to Make Them
Roskilde 6 is the pitiful wreck, which clothed in stainless steel still amazes. The question is what effort it took to set sail...
The Introduction of Sails to Viking Scandinavia
The textiles necessary to outfit a Viking boat carrying a 100 man required nearly 30 times more "girl-power" than "man-power". Further it created a whole new Scandinavian landscape characterized by heath grazed by sheep.