A Viking Voyage: Life Aboard the Longship, c. 900 CE | Calm Bedtime History

It is the year 900, in the early months of spring. A clinker-built longship lies ready at the head of a deep Norwegian fjord, its striped sail furled against the mast, its crew of thirty men preparing to row out on a long crossing of the northern seas. The voyage ahead will last many days, through waters they know only by the memory of those who have returned.