The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde (Roskilde) is the reason for many people to travel to Denmark.
What does the average person know about contemporary Denmark? Yes, almost nothing. A tiny, sleepy kingdom somewhere between Germany and Sweden.
Well, firstly, it is not tiny, and secondly, it was not always sleepy.
Denmark is the largest European country because, in addition to the Jutland peninsula, it owns the islands of Funen, Bornholm, Zeeland and, most importantly, Greenland. A few centuries ago, the Danes owned England and a significant part of the German lands. More recently Norway. Norwegians even left the Danish flag, which they are used to. Only a blue cross was added.
Of course, it is interesting to learn about those people who managed to spoil the life of half of Europe.
These are Vikings. To get acquainted with their life, way of life, crafts, you need to go to the Viking Ship Museum.
It's really interesting there. In the museum building there are real preserved Knorrs and Drakars.
Danish archaeologists dug them up in swamps and the swamp slurry somehow kept these ships from disappearing. That is, these boards remember how bearded berserkers, gorged on fly agarics, walked on them. At the piers near the museum, replica boats and ships are rocking, but they are exactly the same as the originals. There are also workshops under the canopies, where there are master classes for those who want to master ancient crafts. Pottery, for example, or carpentry. Has it ever occurred to you how the Scandinavians made boards for boats without using saws? They will show you there.
The museum has several interiors of dwellings and knorrs, which, based on excavations, repeat these interiors of a thousand years ago.
There is a wardrobe where everyone can put on clothes, which are again sewn in the likeness of the finds from the excavations.
In short, very few people will not enjoy visiting this museum.
The rest should visit.
Favorable wind in your striped sail and One to help you.
What does the average person know about contemporary Denmark? Yes, almost nothing. A tiny, sleepy kingdom somewhere between Germany and Sweden.
Well, firstly, it is not tiny, and secondly, it was not always sleepy.
Denmark is the largest European country because, in addition to the Jutland peninsula, it owns the islands of Funen, Bornholm, Zeeland and, most importantly, Greenland. A few centuries ago, the Danes owned England and a significant part of the German lands. More recently Norway. Norwegians even left the Danish flag, which they are used to. Only a blue cross was added.
Of course, it is interesting to learn about those people who managed to spoil the life of half of Europe.
These are Vikings. To get acquainted with their life, way of life, crafts, you need to go to the Viking Ship Museum.
It's really interesting there. In the museum building there are real preserved Knorrs and Drakars.
Danish archaeologists dug them up in swamps and the swamp slurry somehow kept these ships from disappearing. That is, these boards remember how bearded berserkers, gorged on fly agarics, walked on them. At the piers near the museum, replica boats and ships are rocking, but they are exactly the same as the originals. There are also workshops under the canopies, where there are master classes for those who want to master ancient crafts. Pottery, for example, or carpentry. Has it ever occurred to you how the Scandinavians made boards for boats without using saws? They will show you there.
The museum has several interiors of dwellings and knorrs, which, based on excavations, repeat these interiors of a thousand years ago.
There is a wardrobe where everyone can put on clothes, which are again sewn in the likeness of the finds from the excavations.
In short, very few people will not enjoy visiting this museum.
The rest should visit.
Favorable wind in your striped sail and One to help you.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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