{"id":385,"date":"2018-10-09T20:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=385"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:38:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T20:38:40","slug":"the-vikings-have-come-and-conquered-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2018\/10\/09\/the-vikings-have-come-and-conquered-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vikings Have Come and Conquered D.C.!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday night Professor Hudgins made her way to the Wharf in D.C. for a deck tour of the <em>Draken Harald H\u00e5rfagre<\/em>, a hand-crafted Viking ship whose 34-person crew\u00a0voyaged from Norway to America this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-387\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Drawing of the 35-meter long Great Ship on the project&#8217;s Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakenhh.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.drakenhh.com<\/a>.<\/h6>\n<p>Usually, replicas of Viking ships are based on interpretations of archaeological material. But the creator of the project said, &#8220;We went the opposite way. We were based in a living Norwegian boat building tradition that has existed since the Viking Age. From there we worked backwards in time to recreate an ocean going Viking ship by using all available sources.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Sources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Archaeological material<\/li>\n<li>The Saga literature and other sources from the Old Norse literature.<\/li>\n<li>Foreign contemporary sources from the Viking Age<\/li>\n<li>Visual representations of Viking ships<\/li>\n<li>Old sailing records, purchasing lists, reports, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-2.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors were transported back in time as the sun set on the Viking ship.\u00a0 Author&#8217;s photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Hudgins was pleased to see a large contingent of female crew who helped sail the vessel across the Atlantic this summer.\u00a0 Young girls on the tour, in turn, saw what a resourceful, ocean-going sailor looked like.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-392 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-5-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-5.jpg 306w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crew members of the Viking ship were international &#8211; including Swedish, American, and British sailors.\u00a0 Author&#8217;s photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout the ship visitors could see the hand-carved ornamentation, including functioning symbols (marking measurements), a beautiful steering oar, and the god Odin&#8217;s two on-board ravens, Hugin and Munin.\u00a0 Dr. Hudgins also noticed all the ropes coated with tar, the beautiful dragon figurehead, and the 24-meter-high mast.\u00a0 Earlier this summer, the boat also stopped at Baltimore, Annapolis, and Ocean City.\u00a0 Its next stop will be New York.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-395\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-395\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-7-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-7-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/207\/2018\/10\/Draken-7.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manly men doing manly things! in the photo exhibit accompanying the tour on the District Wharf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Monday night Professor Hudgins made her way to the Wharf in D.C. for a deck tour of the Draken Harald H\u00e5rfagre, a hand-crafted Viking ship whose 34-person crew\u00a0voyaged from Norway to America this summer. Drawing of the 35-meter long Great Ship on the project&#8217;s Web site, www.drakenhh.com. Usually, replicas of Viking ships are based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2018\/10\/09\/the-vikings-have-come-and-conquered-d-c\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Vikings Have Come and Conquered D.C.!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}