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Nobody has more sailings to choose from than Viking, which has some 80 longships plying the continent.
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Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Launched in 2023, Saturn is in many ways identical to the nine other ocean ships that Viking operates, with wood paneling that echoes traditional longship design and macramé window dressings that recall traditional Norwegian handiwork.
—Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
Viking's new longships dock on the Seine with views of the Eiffel Tower.
—Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2023
The interior of the Noust is dominated by an undulating wooden ceiling that replicates the structure of local fishing boats known as yoles, offspring of the longships once used by Orkney’s Viking overlords.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
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Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Launched in 2023, Saturn is in many ways identical to the nine other ocean ships that Viking operates, with wood paneling that echoes traditional longship design and macramé window dressings that recall traditional Norwegian handiwork.
—Helen Iatrou, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2024
Viking's new longships dock on the Seine with views of the Eiffel Tower.
—Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2023
The interior of the Noust is dominated by an undulating wooden ceiling that replicates the structure of local fishing boats known as yoles, offspring of the longships once used by Orkney’s Viking overlords.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
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“Longship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/longship. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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longship
noun
long·ship
-ˌship 
: a long sail and oar ship used by the Vikings
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