The viking ring fortresses were military constructions.
Viking ship roof design.
They were all uniquely designed and built by master craftsmen.
Viking houses were adapted to the surrounding area.
Houses were built by using wood from oak trees in the viking age.
The walls were either made from clay or wood planks.
They were built during the viking age.
Five of them are located in denmark and were built in the reign of harold bluetooth who died in 986 and one remains in the southern part of sweden.
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This is an article on the viking longships their types and design.
The roof was supported with large posts that were dug into the ground.
The circular forts there are 6 of them have a strictly circular shape and they are called trelleborgs.
Spaces between planks were then filled with tarred wool and animal hair ensuring a watertight ship.
The name is old norse language a compound of megin and hufr the first meaning large or strong and the latter strake or ship plank.
The spaces in between the boards were caulked with tarred wool or animal fur to make the ship watertight.
They were built of wood and had stone walls around the base.
The longhouse had curved walls that almost makes the roof look like a ship flipped on its head.
The roofs were often multi layered and they usually had a tower or spire in the middle of the highest layer of the roof.
Viking ships were clinker built the so called clinker method of ship construction is based on planks of timber usually oak being overlapped and nailed together.
We begin by having a look at the various types used as warships and supply ships.
The clinker viking ship design used two centimeter thick oak boards which were overlapped slightly and then nailed together with iron nails.
There were numerous types of viking longships defined by the number of crew or rowers.
The boat types were quite varied depending on what the ship was intended for but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats with symmetrical ends with true keel they were clinker built which is the overlapping of planks riveted together.
Many of the excavated viking ships feature a special design of the strake which is level with or just below the crossbeams the so called meginhufr.
But the inside was highly decorated with intricate designs.
The planks were also nailed to support ribbing that ran from the gunwale to the keel.
Types of viking longships.
