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Viking vessel
Answer for the clue "Viking vessel ", 8 letters:
longship
Word definitions for longship in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English langscip "man of war;" see long (adj.) + ship (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of naval vessel made by the Vikings.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Longships were a type of ship invented and used by the Norsemen for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age . The longship's design evolved over many centuries, beginning in the Stone Age with the invention of the umiak and continuing ...
Usage examples of longship.
If Ulf did well, the silver he brought home would buy the services of fine boatbuilders and bring his oceangoing longship closer to completion.
Eika fleet sailed out of Rikin Sound before a fair wind, two hundred and twenty-three longships and forty-six knarrs, the big-bellied cargo ships that plied the northern seas.
Many of the longships rest there or return there after they cross the sea.
The longships had raced before the wind, riding the mountainous swells like ducklings in a torrent.
In another moment, the fleet of longships became clearly recognizable, gathered around the base of the floating fortress like ducklings around their mother.
The northmen leaped from their boats into the shallow water, then hurriedly pulled their longships high onto the shore.
Maag longships tied to the piers or anchored some distance out into the harbor.
From what I hear, the Trogites have already sunk a half-dozen or so Maag longships with those cursed rams.
Siamese lug-sails, brigantines, galeasses, Hanseatic League cogs, sixty-oared papyrus galleys, Norse drakkars and dragon-prowed Viking longships called the Oseberg ship.
Several huge trading galleons and a pair of longships were anchored in the port, and the prince saw a huge shipyard to one side, where a pair of sturdy ships appeared to be nearing completion.
The captain ordered the mast unstepped and stowed, and under oars the longship glided in to Cannobaen.
As the huge shape, bigger than anything living in the world, crashed back to the water, another longship capsized from the monstrous waves.
The area now bustled with activity, as horses, provisions, and weapons were ferried from shore to the longships anchored in the bay, or loaded onto those smaller vessels that had been drawn onto the beach.
Viking longships, clinker-built and locked to the prow and the tail, simply fell to bits when struck square on.
King Balon's longships command the sunset sea, and are well placed to menace Lannisport, Fair Isle, and even Highgarden, should we provoke him.