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ﾃ行lendingur
''ﾃ行lendingur'' (, "Icelander") is a replica of the Gokstad viking ship and was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. It is on display at the Viking World museum in Njarﾃｰvﾃｭk, Reykjanesbﾃｦr, Iceland. The ship was built in 1996 by Gunnar Marel Eggertsson, a shipwright from the Westman Islands who skippered the Norwegian Gokstad ship copy ''Gaia'' on her voyage to Washington, D.C. in 1991.Voyage of the ''Islendingur'' Press Release, Government of , 27 April 2000. ''ﾃ行lendingur'' measures 22.5 metres in length, 5.3 metres in breadth, has a draught of 1.7 metres and measuress 80 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking World Museum
Viking World ( ) is a museum in Njarﾃｰvﾃｭk, Reykjanesbﾃｦr, Iceland. The museum opened on 8 May 2009,Vﾃｭkingaheimar - Viking World to be opened EFLA-Engineers.com, April 2009.Vﾃｭkingaheimar opna ﾃ｡ morgun '' Vﾃｭkurfrﾃｩttir'' 7 May 2009 followed by a formal opening on Icelandic National Day, 17 June. The director was Elisabeth Ward; the building was designed by Guﾃｰmundur Jﾃｳnsson. Vik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaia Ship
The Gaia ship is a replica of the 9th century Viking Gokstad ship. It was built in 1990 and departed Bergen (city), Bergen for North America on 17 May 1991. It was named ''Hav-Cella'' prior to departing but was renamed ''Gaia'' by Vigdﾃｭs Finnbogadﾃｳttir, President of Iceland, during a stopover in Iceland. Gaia is the name for the goddess of the Earth in Greek mythology. The Gaia ship reached Newfoundland on 2 August and Washington, D.C. on Leif Erikson Day, 9 October 1991. It further sailed to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit via the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and North America. With the completion of Museum's Wharf by Sandefjord Museum in the summer of 1995, ''Gaia'' and the newly restored ''Southern Actor'' were permanently placed on the wharf where they remain accessible to the public. The ship can be rented for private tours in the fjord. History In the late 1980s, Knut Utstein Kloster was cosponsoring a millennial celebration for Leif Eriksson's voyage to North Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gokstad Ship
The Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Norway, Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. It is displayed at the Viking Ship Museum (Oslo), Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway. It is the largest preserved Viking ship in Norway. Discovery The site where the boat was discovered, situated on arable land, had long been named ''Gokstadhaugen'' or ''Kongshaugen'' (from the Old Norse words ''konungr'' meaning king and ''wikt:haugr, haugr'' meaning mound), although the relevance of its name had been discounted as folklore, as other sites in Norway bear similar names. In 1880, sons of the owner of Gokstad farm, having heard of the legends surrounding the site, uncovered the Bow (ship), bow of a boat while digging in the still frozen ground. As word of the find got out, Nicolay Nicolaysen, then President of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments, reached the site during February 1880. Having ascertained that the find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weblog
A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were often the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, multi-author blogs (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally Editing, edited. MABs from newspapers, other News media, media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog Web traffic, traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. ''Blog'' can also be used as a verb, meaning ''to maintain or add content to a blog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinland
Vinland, Vineland, or Winland () was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas and describes a land beyond Greenland, Helluland, and Markland. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and North America. In 1960, archaeological evidence of the only known Norse site in North America, L'Anse aux Meadows, was found on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. Before the discovery of archaeological evidence, Vinland was known only from the sagas and medieval historiography. The 1960 discovery further proved the pre-Columbian Norse colonization of North America, Norse exploration of mainland North America. Archaeologists found Juglans cinerea, butternuts at L'Anse aux Meadows, which indicates voyages into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reykjavﾃｭk
Reykjavﾃｭk is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflﾃｳi, the Faxaflﾃｳi Bay. With a latitude of 64ﾂｰ08窶ｲ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. Reykjavﾃｭk has a population of around 139,000 as of 2025. The surrounding Capital Region (Iceland), Capital Region has a population of around 249,000, constituting around 64% of the country's population. Reykjavﾃｭk is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to , was established by Ingﾃｳlfr Arnarson, Ingﾃｳlfur Arnarson in 874 Anno Domini, AD. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later Country, national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icelandic National Day
Icelandic National Day (, the day of the nation's celebration) is an annual holiday in Iceland which commemorates the foundation of The Republic of Iceland on 17 June 1944. This date also marks the end of Iceland's centuries-old ties with Denmark. The date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Jﾃｳn Sigurﾃｰsson, a major figure of Icelandic culture and the leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement. ''Icelandic Review'' 6/17/2013 History The formation of the was based on a clause in the 1918[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Anse Aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows () is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse colonization of North America, Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland in the Provinces and Territories of Canada, Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. Anthony. With carbon dating estimates between 990 and (Radiocarbon dating#Principles, mean date 1014) and Dendrochronology, tree-ring dating of 1021, L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland. It is notable as evidence of the Norsemen, Norse presence in North America and for its possible connection with the accounts of Leif Erikson in the ''Saga of the Greenlanders'' and the ''Saga of Erik the Red'', which were written down in the 13th century. Archaeological evidence suggest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur
Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur () is a village situated on the Hvammsfjﾃｶrﾃｰur in the north-west of Iceland. The village also lies at the north-eastern end of the Snﾃｦfellsnes peninsula and is part of the municipality of Dalabyggﾃｰ. Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur had about 270 inhabitants in 2014 and is a service center for the area, including the regional tourist information centre.Frank Jacobs"The Map as Address: Cryptic Letter Reaches Icelandic Destination" ''The Big Think'', 4 September 2016.Andrew Evans, ''Iceland'', 2nd ed. Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, England: Bradt Travel Guides, 2011, p. 276 In the traditional system of counties of Iceland that existed until the late 1980s, it was part of Dalasﾃｽsla, a name that is still used for the region. Overview Bﾃｺﾃｰardalur contains a supermarket and a petrol station, hair salons, a pub/restaurant, a coffee shop, a health-care centre, an off-licence, a garage and a craft shop; the information centre is in the same building as a cafe and a museum on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Age
The Viking Age (about ) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia but also to any place significantly settled by North Germanic peoples, Scandinavians during the period. Although few of the Scandinavians of the Viking Age were Vikings in the sense of being engaged in piracy, they are often referred to as ''Vikings'' as well as ''Norsemen''. Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the Viking activity in the British Isles, British Isles, History of Ireland (800窶1169), Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Settlement of Iceland, Iceland, Norse settlements in Greenland, Greenland, History of Normandy, Normandy, and the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast and along the Trade route from the Varangians to the Greeks, Dnieper and Volga trade rout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
