Longboat

In 1904, the mound in southeastern Norway's Vestfold County surrendered one of the country's greatest archaeological treasures, the Oseberg Viking longboat, which is now on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It being the last Tuesday in January, it is Up Helly Aa day in Lerwick when the town celebrates its Viking heritage by parading round the streets behind a replica Viking longboat, which is then burned just as our Norse forbearers did when sending a departed soul to Valhalla. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The longboat was a very fine, roomy, and wholesome-looking boat, big enough to accommodate all that were left of us, as well as our kits and a very fair stock of provisions; but in order to afford a little more room and comfort for the wounded men I decided to take the gig also, putting into her a sufficient quantity of provisions and water to ballast her, and placing Simpson in charge of her, with one of the unwounded and two of the most slightly-wounded men as companions, leaving six of us to man the longboat. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

What they’d seen on the longboat was a warning, Mitchell said. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)

Then you have to take another boat, a "longboat" over to the sanctuary, and this is where things went bad. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The longboat was lowering away to larboard, and I saw men, struggling on the ice-sheeted deck with barrels of provisions, abandon the food in their haste to get away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew that if we escaped at all, it would be by the longboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stark they came into the world, and stark they passed out over the side of the longboat and down into the dark freezing ocean. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was not minded to embark with a broken member on so hazardous a voyage in the longboat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The longboat rolled drearily on an empty, windless sea, and the stagnant, overcast sky gave no promise of any breeze. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remembered back carefully to the reckoning of time kept in the longboat by Captain Nicholl; and carefully, again and again, to make sure beyond any shadow of uncertainty, I went over the tale of the days and nights I had spent on the island. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scotch highballs, smoking fragrant three-for-a-dollar Havanas that were charged to the adventure, and for ever maundering about the hell of the longboat, the cross-bearings unnamable, and the treasure a fathom under the sand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The longboat was deep and heavy in the water, for it was burdened by the entire ship's company of twenty-one. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Captain Davenport even put the chronometer into the longboat, fearing the blowing up of the deck at any moment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Didn't he fetch the atoll after eighteen days in the longboat? ❋ Unknown (2010)