{"id":530,"date":"2014-08-17T18:36:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=530"},"modified":"2014-08-17T18:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:36:24","slug":"history-viking-ship-remains-found-on-the-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"History &#8211; Viking Ship Remains Found on the Mississippi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heavily damaged ship was found near the\u00a0confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. It has a length of about 52 feet\u00a0meters, a beam of 14.5 feet, and a hull that is estimated capable of carrying up to 24 to 28\u00a0tons, a typical size for this type of ship.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drakkar-460x307.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-531\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drakkar-460x307-300x200.png\" alt=\"Viking Knarr\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drakkar-460x307-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drakkar-460x307-344x230.png 344w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/drakkar-460x307.png 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viking Knarr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Knarrs\u00a0were naval vessels\u00a0that were built by the\u00a0Norsemen from Scandinavia and Iceland for Atlantic voyages, but also\u00a0used\u00a0 for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during an era known as the Viking Age, that goes approximately from 793 to 1066 AD. They were clinker built, which\u00a0means the overlapping of planks riveted together. It was capable of sailing 75 miles in one day and held a crew of about 20 to 30 men.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #006699;\" href=\"http:\/\/worldnewsdailyreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sword.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4366 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/worldnewsdailyreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/sword-300x208.png\" alt=\"One of the only artefacts on the site, this sword was probably abandoned after it broke, suggesting a violent battle.\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The above picture of a broken sword suggested it was discarded after a fight.<\/p>\n<p>This new discovery could be one of the\u00a0oldest evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, and it\u00a0certainly brings to mind\u00a0the famous colony of\u00a0\u201dVinland\u201d mentioned in the\u00a0<i>Icelandic Sagas.\u00a0<\/i>This mythical colony\u00a0would have been\u00a0established by Leif Ericson around the same period as the settlement\u00a0at l\u2019Anse aux Meadows,\u00a0in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the most famous site of a Norse or Viking settlement in North America outside Greenland.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy Nerds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavily damaged ship was found near the\u00a0confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. It has a length of about 52 feet\u00a0meters, a beam of 14.5 feet, and a hull that is estimated capable of carrying up to 24 to 28\u00a0tons, a typical size for this type of ship. Knarrs\u00a0were naval vessels\u00a0that were built by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}