Drinking Horn Mug With Viking Ship (Drakkar) Design

Hand carved to showcase a Viking Longship, tankard features the signature Viking ship carved into it. The longship has a dragon’s head and shields on the side of the ship carved to complete the design.

Longships were potentially called skeiðar (sing. skeið) if they were extremely long, serpent- or drakkar ships when dragon-heads were present, and snekke/snekkja when slightly smaller. They used both oars and sails to reach their frighteningly high speeds which were so instrumental to the Viking raiders’ hit-and-run tactics. They were also narrower than most of the ships from the early Viking Age; the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, states that archaeologically, ships have to be at least five times as long as they were wide to be classified as longships. The shields of the warriors hung on the outside of the ship.

You’ll receive the horn in the images. Each carved horn mug is unique and is individually photographed. You won’t receive a similar horn carved in the same way, you’ll be receiving the one you see in the images.