The medieval ‘cog’ was nearly 92 feet long and featured castles on its bow and stern.
  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Wait why do they call it a “viking ship”, not only it was a cog, type of ship i never heard being connected to vikings but at the point of XV century viking age was long gone, it was the age of Hansa, which notably extensively used cogs - big and heavy ships made for trade.

    A cog:

    • Thavron@lemmy.ca
      2·
      7 months ago

      And apparently it was built in The Netherlands by “viking artisans”. I can see how they would deduce where it was built (from material choices?) but how do they know it was specifically built by vikings.