The Third Gokstad Boat: The Documentation and Context of a Viking Age Boat

Planke, Terje; Øya, Svein Erik; Heide, Eldar

doi:10.1080/10572414.2021.2014720

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“…It could be broken into pieces, twisted or bent in many directions, and some of the material could be missing. (Planke, Stålegård, 2014) Øya, Heide, 2022) Therefore, the material must be interpreted. Hull material, such as strakes in a lap strake boat, could suffer from bending on the high edge.…”

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Interpreting archaeological boat material, the G1 boat of the Gokstad find

Øya,

Stålegård

2023

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We will discuss the limitation of cardboard as a material for reconstruction models, and whether an alternative material could be helpful to overcome these limitations. We have experimented with 3D-printed plastic and ways to reduce the longitudinal high edge stiffness, to get around what we think is the main weakness using cardboard. The goal has been to open the possibilities of interpretation. The end result of the tests has been used to build a 1:5 reconstruction model, for our interpretation of the 10m boat from the Gokstad find (G1) from late 800’s. We found that the use of 3D-printed plastic, with a designed internal weakness, gives us more longitudinal flexibility in the model. This flexibility opens up for interpretations that are less feasible when using cardboard.

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Interpreting archaeological boat material, the G1 boat of the Gokstad find

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2023

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“…This is not a question with a simple yes or no answer. Planke (2011) and Planke and Stålegård (2014) drew attention to ethical and hermeneutical problems in the quest to find such a system. On the one hand, it is still possible to distinguish an öka from the Stockholm archipelago today, a century later.…”

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Reconstructing the use of plumb level from a 19th century clinker boat tradition

Leijonhufvud

2023

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Traditionally, vernacular Nordic clinker boats are built without plans or templates. The local boat traditions all have a system of design that was handed over from master to apprentice. In some local traditions, a simple plumb level was used to guide the boatbuilder. The plumb level was placed on the planks of the hull during the build to give them the right angles of inclination in certain parts of the hull. Knowledge of how to use this plumb level is still considered part of living, unbroken traditions in some areas. In some local traditions, however, there are no longer any living tradition bearers that have the knowledge of how this tool was used in the local context. In this contribution, I will discuss how this lost knowledge can be reconstructed using old artefacts as a source material. I am investigating the tradition of building vernacular, clinker-built boats called ‘öka’ for sailing and rowing. This specific boat building tradition was located in the 19th century Stockholm archipelago. The artefacts in this case are preserved boats built in the old tradition and preserved plumb levels from closely related traditions. A central question in this context is to locate the exact positions in the boat that were measured by the plumb level. Working with reverse engineering, the measuring can be performed on preserved boats, but the right places for measuring still must be located to reconstruct the knowledge of how and where to use the tool. Some preserved plumb levels have markings that can be used in this investigation to match the locations and angles in the preserved boats. In this contribution, I will also discuss the possibility of applying the traditional measuring methods used by the old boatbuilders in today´s surveys and reconstructions, not translating the craft object into a digital 3D model or a lines plan.

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The Third Gokstad Boat: The Documentation and Context of a Viking Age Boat

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Interpreting archaeological boat material, the G1 boat of the Gokstad find

Interpreting archaeological boat material, the G1 boat of the Gokstad find

Reconstructing the use of plumb level from a 19th century clinker boat tradition

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