Word: stad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artifacts were their longships, beakprowed and clinker-built, with a shallow draft so that they could be rowed straight up on the beach for surprise attack, like landing craft, and usually powered by 30 or more oars. Alas, the Viking ships found in such Norwegian burial sites as Gok-stad and Oseberg, and now preserved in Oslo, are too fragile to cross the Atlantic. But as a sort of extension of the Metropolitan exhibition, a two-thirds scale model of one is being displayed at the South Street Seaport Museum in Lower Manhattan...