The Skuldelev Ships I: Topography, Archaeology, History Conservation and Display by Crumlin-Pedersen, Ole - 2002

Roskilde, Denmark: The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde and Centre for Maritime Archaeology, 2002. Quarto. 360 pages, illustrations, charts, maps. One of the finest works on the wrecks preserved and expertly analyzed by a host of scholars in the fields of Archaeological Fieldwork, Conservation and restoration, Description and analysis of the ships as found with extensive historical background. The scholarly tools now available show this as a model of understanding how these small ships built over 1,000 years ago were carefully constructed with oak yet these would have disappeared but for the painstaking rediscovery of the hull-framing system. The beautiful charts and reconstructed drawings show how extensive were the ship building skills of the Vikings. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards lettered in yellow and white, spine lettering white, near fine.