Talk:Longship

message: Apparently the ropes the Vikings used on their ships were made of walrus hide or lime bast fiber (bast is an inner tree bark).  Source--"Vikings" by J.M. Clements, Sterling Publishing, N.Y. 2007, pg. 29.  50.202.81.2 (talk) 06:42, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. Walrus was also hunted in Norway. Walrus hide ropes are said to be incredibly strong and durable. I guess it can tolerate saltwater so much better? Read about Walrus hunting in Norway on the Vikings page - I just recently put it in under "Farming and cuisine"; yes they also consumed the flesh. The climate was different back then, and Walrus was in Norway. If I remember correctly even polar bear RhinoMind (talk) 23:18, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

text: Back again. Here is some on-line information on the rigging of Viking ships: sail and rigging. Be sure to also read the section on Ropes, where walrus rope is discussed. RhinoMind (talk) 20:08, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rigging, material 

message: I've heard that the Viking sails were made from a local Norwegian wool which allowed the sails to billow in an elastic mode, providing more sail power, hence the greater speed.  Anybody heard of this or which breed of sheep/goat to use?  50.202.81.2 (talk) 05:28, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I might be of some help in this. We only know about the Viking ship sails from experimental archaeology. We know that it requires a lot of wool for one thing. If you want to narrow down some proper sources, try searching for "experimental archaeology, longship and wool". There is some evidence pointing to a an organized textile production in Scandinavia as far back as the Nordic Iron Age. You can find a source discussing this on the page Vikings under the trade section.  RhinoMind (talk) 19:48, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Some introductory on-line information can be found here: Woollen sailcloth RhinoMind (talk) 20:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special wool for sails 

message: Hello. For some time a sentence mentioning Sumerians has been up in the lede. A user inserted what was probably supposed to be a ref to the claims, but it had a bad syntax. I have moved the sentence here, for several reasons: 
"A similar design was sailed by the Sumerians many centuries before [ref Cradle of Civilization, p 84, pub Time Life}}"
The reasons are: 
* The article about longships does not contain any information about this in the body, so should not contain any in the lede either.
* The ref does not have a correct syntax and lacks important information to qualify as a ref.
* The claim is controversial to say the least and it is not possible to verify or check the ref easily. (That does not mean it could not be correct though)
* It does not make much sense without a more thorough explanation.
* The Sumerian ships might (?) have had a similar appearance, but I doubt they had any other similarity with longships. I doubt they were clinkerbuilt and of a similar design. It would indeed need more details and refs.
RhinoMind (talk) 14:32, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference apparently is this book, which according to a Google Books search (which might be less than exhaustive) does not mention the word "longship", or "Viking". Huon (talk) 16:00, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

text: The article is clearly about a specific ship design that flourishes in Northern Europe in the Dark/Middle Ages.  It is possible to define galleys in general as "longships", in contrast to merchant vessels ("roundships")but this is not the premise of the article.  As wikipedia has a perfectly good Galley article, there seems little reason for a discursion into other types of ship that are superficially similar. Monstrelet (talk) 13:41, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sumerians 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Drekar was changed to Drakkar, without explanation by an IP address.
Karvi and Drakkar have no 'meaning'. 
And check They took a year to make comment, added in Jan 2018. 
MBG02 (talk) 00:40, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drakkar 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Longships which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.
-- 70.51.201.106 (talk) 14:54, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress (2019)

message: Hi, I removed the spurious etymology of "snekkja/snekke" from "snake", from some childrens' book on vikings. The Norse word for "snake" is "orm" and the ship is not called an "ormkja", so there. Snekke, Schnaak and a dozen other variants are a common Norse/Low German word for a small ship, but the etymological roots of the core "snac" are uncertain, as stated in the ODS dictionary.
Also, the article "Viking Ship" seems to double this one in intent and substance, but makes a much poorer job of it. I suggest they be merged into one GA article. T 85.166.161.28 (talk) 02:09, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Edit, one proposal 

message: the average Longship dimensions are between 20-30 meters in length 3-4 meters in airdraft 4-6 meters in width and the mast is between 15-25 meters in height  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Factualmaniac (talk • contribs) 00:50, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dimensions