Talk:Ormen Lange (longship)

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" Extrapolating from archeological evidence (e.g. the Gokstad ship), this would make Ormen Lange nearly 45 meters long." Except that we have newer and better evidence than Gokstad. It should be altered to reflect Roskilde 7, discovered in 1997: 36 rooms, length approx. 35 meters. Solicitr 13:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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Well, the faroese lenght is described in alen.. Ormurin_Langi

3.

   Knørrur var gjørdur á Noregis landi,
   gott var í honum evni:
   átjan alil og fjøruti
   var kjølurin millum stevni

Alen

According to that article one alen is 62.77 centimeters..

The norwegian tranclation was the following:

   Skipet det bygdest i Noregs land utav dei beste emnom,
   sytti alner og fire til var kjølen imellom stemnom. 

That's 70 alen and 4 more.. I'm not sure what the faeroese one says.. Either it's 80 and 4 more or it's 8 and 40 more I think.. Either way I'm thinking these numbers might be relevant for the article if nothing else as an alternative source..

When calculating the norwegian tranclation's lenght in cm I get 4644,98 cm.. Just thought you should know..

Also, it might be a idea to mention where the length is reported and not just that it is.. I can have a look at my norwegian translation of snorre and see what it says :) Luredreier 17:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh one more thing Sea Stallion (longship)) One of the guys sailing on that ship (one of the experianced ones) told me it's hard to row properly on it because the distance from one man to the next when all the oares is in use is so small. Also it's to narrow to sail properly up agains the wind. It's nice when running thou.. (I might remember some of this wrong it's a bit more then a year since I talked to him the last time..) Luredreier 17:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)