The Ship

Icelander, Víkingaskip

Víkingaskipið Card is völundarsmíð. A model of the famous víkingaskip found at archaeological in 1882 with Gauk stead in Sandefjord, Norway. Local Gauk ship that has been so called veittist was well into the ground. Scientists have archaeological and historical assessment issues so that the ship is built in 870, four years before Ingo Arnarson sailed across the oceans and the land was in Iceland. It is therefore assumed that the ship Icelandic settlers were identical to the ship from Gauksstöðum.

Gunnar Marel Eggertsson began construction of a Viking ship in October 1994 and completed the second year. The ship was launching in March 1996. Gunnar Marel ship built for the most part one, but enjoyed the guidance of many.

The ship is made of pine and oak that came sérvalin from forests in Scandinavia. Sailing vessel was manufactured in Denmark. The design of the stem of the ship was given to many factors. Height nýttist policy in two ways, both the dragon head, which had to be seen around, and as a hedge against high waves on the high seas. Card is 22.5 meters long and 5.3 meters wide. Draft is 1.7 meters, the average is 7 nautical miles, speed is 18 nautical miles.

First, after the Icelander was sjósettur ship was used to educate school children about language víkingatímann. Gunnar Marel Eggertsson intention was, however, that the sailing ship to the U.S. in 2000 in memory of the voyage Terminal teinöld earlier, but that year was given to various western events to commemorate the millennium anniversary of the settlement of the Nordic people. All of this worked.

Gunnar Marel Eggert true Icelander crew set out from Reykjavik, on the 17th Independence Day June 2000. The first stop was the Surat Thani. Where the crew took part in celebrations to mark the Dales eventually building a replica farm Eiriksstadr the highlands, where Eric the Red lived long ago.

From Búðardalur was placed in the sea. The cruise was a long, rigorous and certainly not risk-free. Out of loss, southern tip of Greenland, the ship hit the ice and fog, and was some risk exposure. Everything went well but in the end. To Brattahlíðar in Greenland was víkingaskipið 15th July which was held national meetings and to present víkingahátíðar Margret Thorhilda Danadrottningu. From Brattahlid was sailing so continued. It had a lot of glory on 28 July when Card came to L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the only original Viking place where the paths. New York came fifth ship October after more than three months’ voyage from Iceland.

Icelander sailing to America and bring the ship into port in New York attracted massive attention. TV stations competed to show video of stopping the ship and the suits that would be a good promotional.

After the arrival of the ship to the U.S. ship was in a few months in storage in Westbrook, Connecticut-matrix. For a time was a few roaming policy on its fate. In July 2002, was made heyrinkunnugt the agreement of various parties on the southwest, led Reykjanes, the purchase of the ship was moved back to Iceland in the autumn of that year. First few years after the ship was outside the coast, but found the roof of the nýbyggðu Víkingaheimum Njardwick Fitjar in the autumn of 2008.

The vessel has now been placed on the pillars, which carry one and a half meter up to the ceiling. It makes people able to go down there and enjoy the great völundarsmíðar the ship.