[Glaslyn] News to Amuse

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Hide the Guinness ... the Vikings are coming! 
The _Viking Ship  Museum_ (javascript:siteSearch('Viking Ship Museum');)  in 
Roskilde, Denmark, has reconstructed an 11th-century Viking  vessel, which it 
plans to sail to Dublin, Ireland, the Copenhagen Post  reports. 
The long ship, dubbed the _Sea Stallion_ (javascript:siteSearch('Sea 
Stallion');) , is an  exact replica of a Viking ship built in Dublin in 1042 and found 
in a fjord in  1962, the paper said Monday. 
The museum reconstructed the 98-foot-long, 60-oar ship at a cost of  
approximately $350,000. It will have a crew of 70 volunteer Vikings when it sets  sail 
on its voyage in July 2007. 
It's "the most ambitious ship archaeology research project ever undertaken,"  
said Tinna Damgard Sorensen, director of the museum. 
The Sea Stallion will sail back to Denmark in 2008 — no doubt with a cargo of 
 beer.