Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/viking

viking


This is not only one of the most beautiful structures created by humans, a most stunning expressions of Norse art and craftsmenship, but these structures, built by the thousands, carried the Norse to Byzanz in the East and across the North Atlantic to America to the West, in the year 1002 - they were so fast that the cruise from Norway to Iceland took less than 5 days - woman had a strong role in building and operating these ships, like Freydis, daughter of Erik the Red, conducting an expedition to New Foundland - Hillary Rodham Clinton wrote in her foreword of the book "The Vikings" that the longship was the "internet of the old ages", spanning fast communication half across the globe
 * Nominate - Uwe Kils  (I took the photo) - June 28, 2005 23:58 (UTC)

