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Lecture: Dragons of the North—The World of the Viking Longships
September 26, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
Fullerton Hall
The Classical Art Society presents John Hale, University of Louisville, who traces the ancestry of Viking ships from the Scandinavian Bronze Age to the recent revival of the Viking longship tradition and identifies links between the Vikings’ ships and the watercraft of the Pacific and central Africa.
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Viking ship at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. © ARTstor.
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