Havhingsten og vikingerne

Havhingsten og undervisning

Havhingsten.dk (www.havhingsten.dk) er et undervisningssite i sig selv (- den ligger  både i engelsk og en dansk  version). Her kommer i løbet af den kommende tid til at ligge både undervisningsmateriale, kilder, opgaver, værktøjer til opgaverne og lærervejledning ligesom det vil være muligt at følge skibet online under togtet. Der er også mulighed for at tilmelde sig et elektronisk nyhedsbrev.

Herudover findes der meget godt undervisningsmateriale på f. eks på
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk hvor man kan finde materiale om museets arbejde og introduktion til et museumsbesøg. Hertil information om igangværende forskning, marinarkæologi, godt billedmateriale med meget mere.

På www.stigombord.dk kan man finde mere om handel og bådebygning i vikingetiden - her er også omtalt fundene af Skuldelev skibene og der er adgang til animationer herom sammen med lærervejledninger.
Endelig kan man finde mere materiale på www.skoletjenesten.dk.

En meget god og informativ avisartikel kan findes i Politiken fra 10. juni 2007:

Susanne Nielsen, "Turen går til Dublin"     og

Nis Olsen, "En tidsmaskine af træ, tjære og tovværk" (Politiken 1. juli 2007)

Togtet kan dagligt følges i Politiken i 2. sektion på side 2 og avisens hjemmeside.

DR har ligeledes lavet en meget god side om togtet (med en god linksamling) på www.dr.dk/Tema/Havhingsten 

• Se Vikingeskibsmuseets pressemeddelelse sept. 08 om undervisningstilbud (pdf)

Mikkel H. Thomsen, Museumsinspektør, Vikingeskibsmuseet skriver om projektet:

In 2007 the Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a replica of the Viking longship 'Skuldelev 2' from the 1040's, will sail from Roskilde in Denmark to Dublin in Ireland. The following year the ship will return to Roskilde.
With a crew of 65, most of which are volunteers, the ship is a gigantic archaeological experiment aimed at improving our knowledge of the vessel's performance, ancient navigation, the organisation and logistics behind Viking campaigns overseas - and also the social skills needed to be on board an open boat for weeks under primitive conditions and a strict chain of command.

The public will be able to follow the journey on the Internet and other mass media. A dedicated, bilingual website will display an interactive map, logging the ship's current position, speed, weather conditions and logbook entries from the skipper and select crewmembers sent from the ship through satellite communication. Conditions permitting, the crew will send video footage, audio and still pictures recorded on board and on the locations visited.

On the website these media files - along with static information produced before the journey - form the basis for an interactive education platform for history and science to be used by individuals and schools during and after the journey.

It will be possible to learn about the battle for supremacy over England following the death of Harold Godwinson in the 1066 Battle of Hastings. The original ship Skuldelev 2 most likely took part in the military and diplomatic activities of Harold's sons, which brought them to the court of the Danish King Sven Estridsen in Roskilde.
It will be possible to experiment with the physics of the square rigged sail, hydrodynamics, meteorology, naval architecture and much more. You can step into the shoes of the shipwright and skipper when they try to load and ballast the ship weighing crew against victuals, water and equipment; seeing the consequences of the wrong choices.

All this will be based on the inherent authenticity of the original vessel, the actual weather during those few crucial weeks, as well as the real-time joy and fear of the 65-strong crew.

It is possible to follow the project on the website www.seastallion.dk. Here you can also sign up for the project newsletter.

The content and lay-out of the website is funded by the Viking Ship Museum and the Danish Cultural Heritage Agency. The satellite equipment is provided by Thrane & Thrane. However, the amount of data transmitted from the ship will depend on external funding and on the interest of media partners in subscribing to the data.