The ships of the Viking Age and Norse world, clinker-built warships and trading vessels that crossed the North Sea and the North Atlantic. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship a Norse or Viking ship, longship, knarr or karve. It excludes Mediterranean galleys and later sailing ships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Knarr, Wikipedia
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Knarr (Old Norse: knarr; Old English: cnearr, cnear; Old High German: gnarren) were the Norse merchant and cargo ships of the Viking Age, used by Vikings for long sea voyages and during the Viking expansion.
Karve (ship), Wikipedia
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The karve or karvi (Old Norse: karfi; Old Swedish: karve; Old East Slavic: корабль, korablĭ) was a small type of longship with broad hull, somewhat similar to the ocean-going knarr cargo ships.
Wikipedia: Longship
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Longships (Old Norse: langskip) were long clinker-built warships (Old Norse: herskip, Old Swedish: hærskip) propelled by oars, and later also by sail, used by the Norse and surrounding Germanic tribes from at least the 4th century AD and throughout the Viking Age, being part of the Nordic ship building tradition.
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Longships (Old Norse: langskip) were long clinker-built warships (Old Norse: herskip, Old Swedish: hærskip) propelled by oars, and later also by sail, used by the Norse and surrounding Germanic tribes from at least the 4th century AD and throughout the Viking Age, being part of the Nordic ship building tradition.
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