I WAS in Denmark last week and one morning I got on a train in Copenhagen to make a personal pilgrimage that I had been promising myself for some time.

The Viking longship - the 'Sea Stallion from Glendalough' - sets sail from Dublin today.

Queen Margrethe of Denmark, whose Viking ancestors once raided European shores, today christened a replica of a 1,000-year-old war ship that is due to sail to Britain and Ireland in 2007.