Cramped smack
The Krampmacken is a Viking ship reconstructed in 1980 that sailed from Gotland to the Black Sea and Istanbul between 1983 and 1985 . It was named after the Gutnian word for the common Baltic shrimp Palaemon adspersus : krampmack , as the shape of the boat resembles a shrimp. The shape and size of the hull are based on one of the boats that were found on the Bulverket in Tingstädeträsk in the 1920s .
The boat from Tingstäde is similar to boat finds from Danzig -Ohra in Poland and Ralswiek on Rügen . Secondarily used planks of a similar ship have been found in the older culture layer of Lund . The reconstruction was built in Visby in 1979 . The design of the sail, however, was taken from depictions on Gotland picture stones . The boat measures approximately 8.0 × 2.0 m and has space for 11 people.
The Krampmacken was the model for a number of other replicas of the Viking Age (800-1050 AD). Erik Nylén (1918–2017) was one of the initiators of the project. The ships Nöiriven (1990), Aifur (1992), Thor Viking (1994) and Langsvaige (1997) and expeditions with these Viking ship reconstructions through the Eastern European rivers followed the Krampmacken . An expedition from 1995 to 1997 sailed the rivers as far as Baku on the Caspian Sea .
literature
- Otto Linau: The boat finds from Danzig-Ohra from the Viking Age Danziger Verl.-Ges. Gdansk 1934