Íslendingur

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title: "Íslendingur" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1996-ships", "museum-ships-in-iceland", "replicas-of-viking-ships", "ships-built-in-iceland"] description: "Replica of Gokstad viking ship" topic_path: "general/1996-ships" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Íslendingur" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Replica of Gokstad viking ship ::

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Field	Value
display_title	ital
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Viking landing.jpg
image_size	270px
image_caption	Íslendingur arriving at L'Anse aux Meadows in 2000
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
country	Iceland
flag
name	Íslendingur
builder	Gunnar Marel Eggertsson
laid_down	1996
out_of_service	2008
status	On display
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	Viking sail ship
tonnage	80 gross tons
length	22.5 m
beam	5.3 m
draught	1.7 m
complement	9
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Íslendingur_02.jpg" caption="''Íslendingur'' at the Viking World museum"] ::

Íslendingur (, "Icelander") is a replica of the Gokstad viking ship and was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2000. It is on display at the Viking World museum in Njarðvík, Reykjanesbær, Iceland.

The ship was built in 1996 by Gunnar Marel Eggertsson, a shipwright from the Westman Islands who skippered the Norwegian Gokstad ship copy Gaia on her voyage to Washington, D.C. in 1991. She is equipped with an engine for occasional use but is otherwise an authentic copy, made with ancient techniques.

The ship was initially used to teach Icelandic children about the Viking Age. In 1998, Marel decided to sail her across the Atlantic as part of the millennial celebration in 2000 of his ancestor Leif Eriksson's voyage to Vinland. He founded Íslending hf. to raise money for the venture.

The ship set sail from Reykjavík on Icelandic National Day, 17 June, with Marel skippering and a crew of eight including one woman, Ellen Ingvadottir, who kept the weblog of the voyage. and thought to be the site of the Vinland settlement,

From there the ship sailed, via several ports of call in Newfoundland, In 2002 she was purchased by an Icelandic consortium led by the region of Southern Peninsula. She was displayed in the open air on the coast in Reykjanesbær until she could be moved into the newly constructed Viking World museum in 2008. She is suspended one and a half metres above the ground so that visitors can walk underneath her hull and observe the workmanship.

References

Sources

• Heroic Age 3: Archaeology Digest "Vikings and Picts: Leif Ericsson Anniversary Celebrations" (2000)
• Sonya Procenko, , Newfoundland Flotilla 2000, June 16, 2000.
• Transcript of CNN interview with Gunnar Eggertsson at L'Anse aux Meadows, aired October 9, 2000

References

1. [http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2000/tcr/0427bg01.htm Voyage of the ''Islendingur''], Press Release, Government of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]], 27 April 2000.
2. ''Íslendingur'' measures 22.5 metres in length, 5.3 metres in breadth, has a draught of 1.7 metres and measures 80 [[gross tonnage. gross tons]]. She was built of 18 tonnes of Norwegian and Swedish oak and required 5,000 nails. Her sail was made in Denmark. Her crew complement is 9; the Gokstad ship carried 70. Her average speed is 7 [[Knot (unit). is
3. [http://www.vikingaheimar.is/Skipid/ Skipið], Víkingaheimar ([[Viking World museum]]) {{in lang. is
4. Jeff Blumenfeld, ''You Want to Go Where?: How to Get Someone to Pay for the Trip of Your Dreams'', New York: Skyhorse, 2009, {{ISBN
5. Her first port of call was [[Búðardalur]] in [[Hvammsfjörður]], where she took part in celebrations at [[Eiríksstaðir]], where [[Erik the Red]] lived and his son Leif was born. Despite a 10-hour ordeal with bad weather off [[Cape Farewell, Greenland. Newfoundland]], the single viking settlement to have been discovered on the mainland [[North America
6. to [[New York City]], where she arrived on 5 October, approximately 3 months after the start of the voyage. ''Íslendingur'' was laid up in [[Westbrook, Connecticut]]. A deal to use her in advertising fell through because of the [[September 11 attacks|9/11 attacks]].Blumenfeld, [https://books.google.com/books?id=H1f0MKOTfmYC&q=The+executive+at+Telia&pg=PA29 pp. 28-29].
7. Blumenfeld, [https://books.google.com/books?id=H1f0MKOTfmYC&q=Viking+World&pg=PA23 p. 29].

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