There is another figure whose role in the second Viking Age was equally pivotal: Thorkell the Tall. Arguably the most ...

On the 9th of April 1940, the crew of a Danish merchant ship receives the news of Germany's invasion of Denmark. Instead of returning home, they vote in favor of setting course for England.

Others, like the Gokstad and Tune ships, combined rowing and sailing," he said ... In 2008 a replica Viking ship - Sea Stallion - sailed from Denmark to Ireland It was a seafaring culture ...

But a trip here isn't complete without a swing through the cute Danish countryside. In under two hours, you can time-travel from modern Copenhagen to a 10th-century Viking ship, 17th-century ...