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Due to the size of the boats (approx. 25–30 m long, 15 m wide, and 5 m high) the boathouses had to be large enough to accommodate the ships. During the summer seasons when the boating houses were no longer in use, Vikings used these structures for feasts and even royal festivals on occasion.
The foremost sources of inspiration for the Dragestil style were the Viking and medieval art and architecture of Scandinavia. It had roots in the preservation of stave churches and the recent excavation of historic relics such as the Tune, Gokstad and Oseberg ships.
Most of these are from the period just after the Viking Age, 1060-1350 AD, but Roskilde 6 is from 1025 AD and is the longest Viking ship ever found; about 37 m (121 ft) long. [4] All except Roskilde 8 have been excavated and their remains are at the National Museum of Denmark ( Roskilde 6 on display, remaining in storage).
Viking ships were marine vessels of unique structure, used in Scandinavia throughout the Middle Ages. The boat-types were quite varied, depending on what the ship was intended for, [1] but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends with true keel.
During the dredging, he found mostly different types of timber from the platform and houses, among these a wooden chest about 1 metre (3.3 ft) long made from a log, a 4.5 by 0.3 metres (14.76 ft × 0.98 ft) watering trough, a 5-metre (16 ft) ladder, the remnants of two kinds of boats as well as some bronze objects, floats, hazelnuts and bones ...
The average speed of Viking ships varied from ship to ship, but lay in the range of 5–10 knots (9–19 km/h) and the maximum speed of a longship under favorable conditions was around 15 knots (28 km/h). [3] The Viking Ship museum in Oslo houses the remains of three such ships, the Oseberg, the Gokstad and the Tune ship. [4]
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In 1913, Swedish professor Gabriel Gustafson proposed a specific building to house Viking Age finds that were discovered at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The Gokstad and Oseberg ships had been stored in temporary shelters at the University of Oslo. An architectural contest was held, and Arnstein Arneberg won.