Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Huge Prehistoric Sailing Ships from Bronze Age Scandinavia" video.

  1. Later Norse used kiels, a giant central beam down the center of the ship that bore all the weight. These were a fraction the cost of painstaking making interlocking planks, but was limited by the size of the tallest tree. This is why these giant ships sound impossible, because later technological advances allowed smaller ships to be mass produced.
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