Every Genius Detail That Made Viking Longships Remarkable 

Yeah that was barely any detail... CHILDHOOD RUINED!

Progress?

Floki's engineering sorted that out.

I think they coated the planks with tar.

How does it look scary? He is on the other side of the plank.

are you joking or just bad at english? either side means every side which in this case are both

The boats flexed which allows them to ride through huge waves. Look for videos of Draken.

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@@paapiajahan8431 finally someone got the reference lol

Several, at last 5

Don’t know for sure, although many times they are using timber that has already been felled by storms, fire or other reason.

its only a segment from a full documentary.

Even if that's true, I don't think the slaves designed them.

How did the Vikings travel to get their slaves? On long boats. The tools, the design and the skill needed to build these boats took years to acquire. The knowledge was then passed down through the generations. Not possible for captured slaves to make the tools, come up with the design and then actually build a long boat.

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I was just going to say the same thing. Where's part 2?

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Because they dont give there secrets up

Indeed. It's a shame when stuff like this gets lost to history.

@@LookBackHistory Watch history channel. 😆

@@LookBackHistory remember when that huge library burned down?

A shame there are no books on how to build these ships.

Port and left of h

Port and left both have four letters it’s that easy

@@jackwinemiller8358 - Good call; that's how I remember it. I just think of the number of letters in the words "red," "left," and "port." The right words, nautical terms and marker light colors, all easy to remember.

The easiest way to remember is that Left and Port are 4 letters so they go together

@Hubert Cumberdale larboard , is Anglo Saxon for ladder side . The side against the quay .Where presumably a ladder would be used to get on board . Of course this could be confusing in a storm , when there would be a lot of noise . So they changed it . I have read the Royal Navy changed it to port hand side in 1738 .

Funny enough it's called Bog Iron :P

True, but the iron we have (and had) in Denmark are of poor quality, so we had to trade us to better iron.

@@darth_yoda mainly because it is found and extracted from bogs :)

Bless you, for so many do not have pride in their ancestry.

Lucifer became prideful and rebeled against the most high.

it was plank wood on each other

Yes

Yea fool. Trees grow.

They used, as you say, iron nails. Iron nails with very low, almost zero carbon. That would make them easy to deform when they hammered the nails. Another very important aspect of low carbon iron besides its malleability, is that the less carbon, the more corrosion resistant it is. If you look at modern stainless steels that is an alloy of iron, nickel and chrome, you will find very little carbon, as it infact decreases corrosion resistance. The ship itself was also covered in tar so that would also protect the nails. In most vikingship burials, the oak is long gone but the nails are still there, but of course corroded. The vikings knew how to make iron and steel from bog iron, which is available everywhere so replacing and repairing nails would have been straight forward. I would imagine that they carrier some spareparts as well.

@@motordude67 Thank you for your reply & explanation. I’ve wondered about the nails issue for quite awhile. I used to help a friend maintain his wooden sailboat & observed how much work went into caulking, oiling, painting & metal maintenance was required.

(sigh) Here we go again.