Viking ship to invade Liffey once more

CENTURIES after its predecessors terrified the citizens of this island, a Viking longship will once again arrive in Dublin.

This time, however, it’s a reconstruction of the famed vessel, due to complete a voyage from Denmark to these shores on August 14.

Going by the name of the Sea Stallion from Glendalough, the reconstruction will go on show in the National Museum at Collins Barracks in Dublin. The original Sea Stallion was built in the capital in 1042 and is though to have taken part in sea battles between the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans. That craft sank in the 11th century but its wreck was recovered from the Roskilde fjord in 1962.