So in Denmark we also went to a Viking museum, where they had reconstructed at least fifteen Viking boats using traditional tools and traditional types of wood. That means that the resulting boats were as close as we could get to real Viking boats. Most of them were small fishing boats (one of which we got to row in, and I got to steer, but it started to rain a lot, and there wasn't a lot of wind so our sail could only make the boat go so fast) but one was a long war boat for at least 60 people, which they sailed around the coast for at about three weeks a couple of years ago.
These people dug up five different Viking age boat remains that had been used to block a harbor passage in their time, and spent 25 years restoring the wood to be out of the water, and what they found of each boat is now on display at the museum. Then they made 1:1 models of each ship, and the biggest one (crew of 80) they think probably participated in the war for the English crown.
P. S.
Web address for pictures of the museum/ us in Viking clothes:
http://imgur.com/a/8bp7k
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