Norse Mythology VIKING SHIP FIELD TRIP norsemyth.org/2013/10/viking-ship-field-trip.html Today is Columbus Day in the United States. Instead of celebrating a guy who never actually visited North America, join me in honoring the brave Vikings who made the journey in the year 1000 – and the year 1893! On October 5, I led a group of my students on a field trip to see a Viking ship in the Chicago suburbs. The trip was open to students from my Norse religion class at Carthage College, members of the Carthage Tolkien Society I started last semester, and students from my class at Chicagos Newberry Library on The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkiens Mythic Sources. The Viking is a 19th-century replica of the ancient Gokstad ship. The original ship was built in the mid-9th century and used for a ship burial around 900. The replica that we visited was built in Norway at the Framnæs Shipyard in Sanefjord between 1892 and 1893. In 1893, the Viking was sailed by Captain Magnus Andersen and his eleven-man Norwegian crew across the wide Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the United States. The ship made stops in Newfoundland and New York City before traveling via the Hudson River, Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Chicago for the Worlds Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Sailing from Bergen, Norway to Newfoundland took twenty-eight days on the open sea. The Chicago Tribune reported that the 4,800-mile journey from Bergen to Chicago took more than two months in total. Read more & see my photographs from the visit at norsemyth.org/2013/10/viking-ship-field-trip.html VIKING SHIP FIELD TRIP norsemyth.org/2013/10/viking-ship-field-trip.html Today is Columbus Day in the United States. Instead of celebrating a guy who never actually visited North America, join me in honoring the brave Vikings who made the journey in the year 1000 – and the year 1893! On October 5, I led a group of my students on a field trip to see a Viking ship in the Chicago suburbs. The trip was open to students from my Norse religion class at Carthage College, members of the � I started last semester, and students from my class at Chicagos � on �: �s Mythic Sources. The Viking is a 19th-century replica of the ancient Gokstad ship. The original ship was built in the mid-9th century and used for a ship burial around 900. The replica that we visited was built in Norway at the Framnæs Shipyard in Sanefjord between 1892 and 1893. In 1893, the Viking was sailed by Captain Magnus Andersen and his eleven-man Norwegian crew across the wide Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the United States. The ship made stops in Newfoundland and New York City before traveling via the Hudson River, Erie Canal and Great Lakes to Chicago for the Worlds Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Sailing from Bergen, Norway to Newfoundland took twenty-eight days on the open sea. The Chicago Tribune reported that the 4,800-mile journey from Bergen to Chicago took more than two months in total. Read more & see my photographs from the visit at norsemyth.org/2013/10/viking-ship-field-trip.html
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