Sea Stallion sets out to ride the waves to Denmark

THOUSANDS turned out at Dublin’s Docklands yesterday to bid farewell to a replica Viking longship which made the city its home for almost a year.

The ‘Sea Stallion from Glendalough’, modelled on an actual longship which travelled from Denmark to Ireland during Viking times, began its return journey to the Danish port of Roskilde yesterday morning.

Among those attending the departure were Lord Mayor and Admiral of the Port Paddy Bourke; OPW Minister of State Martin Mansergh; National Museum of Ireland director Pat Wallace; and Roskilde Viking Ship Museum director Tinna Damgärd-Sorenseon.