Sea Stallion - The Viking Warship Arrives In Dublin

Sea Stallion from Glendalough (Havhingsten fra Glendalough)

The Viking Longship arrived at Custom House Quay, Dublin at 1.35 p.m. on Tuesday 14th August 2007, to be greeted by the Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor Paddy Bourke and Minister of State at the Department of Finance Mr Noel Ahern, T.D.. Thousands of people lined the quaysides and official boats led by the Irish Naval Service and Dublin Port tugs led the flotilla of welcome. The Bells of Christ Church Cathedral and other churches rang in welcome and the ships horns of visiting ships in the Port joined the fanfare. A Guard of Honour and the Band of 4 Western Brigade gave the salute to the Danish Party. Over two days large crowds visited the Viking Age Craft Village set up alongside the Ship moored at CHQ and got to see the Longship.
The Sea Stallion Ship was moved to the National Museum of Ireland at Collins Barracks and will form part of a special exhibition until June 2008.

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[infomatique]

There are no Vikings left ... The became

[Western2459]

My moms friend was the nurse on the ship.

[infomatique]

That must have been a lot of hard work for her.

[cool101118118]

i dont no why but when i watched this on bbc2 i thought that Louise Henriksen was amazingly beautiful ... is there going to be a program on it returning to denmark?

[infomatique]

I am not aware of any plans to do so ... I will let you know if I get any additional information.

[infomatique]

The BBC in the UK (BBC 2) is showing a two hour propramme about this ship at 19:55 today. The title of the programme is "Timewatch"

[bradmacaroon]

So the banner reads: "wild men, lots of beer, has nothing changed in 1000 years?" What is there to change? What else is important?

[faltsda]

Looks like the ancient greek warship..their armours also look similar to the hellenic armor..their music seems familiar for some reason too..

[tjallew]

@Dusty696969

it's a copy but the original built in Dublin more then 1000 year ago is the biggest viking

ship to bee found.

We think that Norwegian was bigger but it would bee a miracle if we found some intact after

example-sea battle Svolder.

This ship found thanks to King Knuth the great that used it as trap in a sea battle

between Danice Islands

[cheesepuffpie]

If your a a citizen of Norway, and you join the armed forces. Does that make you official viking?

[MilesB1975]

Could be a folk song called Lanigans Ball...

[cfodk]

Priceless :)))))

[Vikingen78]

The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is a remake of a longship that was found in Roskilde Fjord in Denmark in 1956. The original ship was build in Dublin in Ireland by Norse settlers and therefore the Sea Stallion was sailed to Dublin from the city of Roskilde in 2007 to celebrate its origin. It stayed in Dublin for a year before it was sailed back to Denmark in 2008. Today it can be seen at the Viking Ship Museum of Roskilde in Denmark. In summer and spring it even sails in Roskilde Fjord.

[Dusty696969]

So is this a real viking ship or just a remake of one? Because I would not think they would want to risk somthing that is 1000 to 1200 years old???

[seawolf1451]

Yeah and we are still here he he

[LexSnipe49]

aaah the vikings they pillaged raped and settled in ireland