Editing Vikings (section)

===Experimental archaeology===
[[Experimental archaeology]] of the Viking Age is a flourishing branch and several places have been dedicated to this technique, such as [[Jorvik Viking Centre]] in the United Kingdom, [[Sagnlandet Lejre]] and {{Interlanguage link|Ribe Viking Center|da|3=Ribe Vikingecenter}} in Denmark, [[Foteviken Museum]] in Sweden or [[Lofotr Viking Museum]] in Norway. Viking-age [[Historical reenactment|reenactors]] have undertaken experimental activities such as iron smelting and forging using Norse techniques at [[Norstead (Newfoundland)|Norstead]] in Newfoundland for example.<ref>{{cite web |author=Darrell Markewitz 1998–2010 |url=http://www.warehamforge.ca/ENCAMPMENT/smelting.html |title=Iron Smelting at the Norse Encampment – Daily Life in the Viking Age circa 1000 AD at Vinland. The Viking Encampment living history program at Parks Canada L'Anse aux Meadows NHSC in Newfoundland |publisher=Warehamforge.ca |access-date=21 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120428025659/http://www.warehamforge.ca/ENCAMPMENT/smelting.html |archive-date=28 April 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 1 July 2007, the reconstructed Viking ship ''Skuldelev 2'', renamed ''[[Havhingsten fra Glendalough|Sea Stallion]]'',<ref>[http://www.seastallion.ie/ Return of Dublin's Viking Warship] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081018224714/http://www.seastallion.ie/ |date=18 October 2008 }}. Retrieved 14 November 2007.</ref> began a journey from Roskilde to Dublin. The remains of that ship and four others were discovered during a 1962 excavation in the Roskilde Fjord. Tree-ring analysis has shown the ship was built of oak in the vicinity of Dublin in about 1042. Seventy multinational crew members sailed the ship back to its home, and ''Sea Stallion'' arrived outside Dublin's Custom House on 14 August 2007. The purpose of the voyage was to test and document the seaworthiness, speed, and manoeuvrability of the ship on the rough open sea and in coastal waters with treacherous currents. The crew tested how the long, narrow, flexible hull withstood the tough ocean waves. The expedition also provided valuable new information on Viking longships and society. The ship was built using Viking tools, materials, and much of the same methods as the original ship.

Other vessels, often replicas of the [[Gokstad ship]] (full- or half-scale) or [[Skuldelev ships|Skuldelev]] have been built and tested as well. The ''Snorri'' (a [[Skuldelev ships|Skuldelev I]] [[Knarr]]), was sailed from Greenland to Newfoundland in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dougcabot.com/ship/vi_sailing.html |title=Beyond Lands' End: Viking Voyage 1000 |publisher=Dougcabot.com |access-date=21 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330191233/http://www.dougcabot.com/ship/vi_sailing.html |archive-date=30 March 2012}}</ref>