The words "A viking warship comes home" is written on huge banners outside the gates to The National Museum in Dublin.
The Sea Stallion from Glendalough is now placed inside the gates in the yard. After the arrival in Dublin, the ship was hoisted over the roofs in town and finally put down in the museum yard. The yard used to be a drill ground in connection with military barracks, but is now the temperary home for the Sea Stallion. The ship will stay there, as a part of a bigger exhibition about the vikings, Ireland and our common history
The exhibition is open for visitors until next summer, where the plan is to sail the Sea Stallion south of the British Isles and back to Roskilde.
But for the Irish, there is no doubt, that the Sea Stallion has now come home. And no wonder; the original ship, which the Sea Stallion is a reconstruction of, was build by vikings in Dublin in 1042.
And since the Irish is generally proud of their kinship with the old nordic peoples, it is no wonder, that the exhibition can draw large crowds of visitors. The National Museum has had an unusually large amount of visitors, since they opened the exhibition with the Sea Stallion. People come to see the ship, they have heard so much about, with their own eyes.
The exhibition in Collins Barracks tells about the daily life in Dublin from 800 to 1150, and, among other things, it shows findings from archaeological excavations in the capital of Ireland, wich were founded by the vikings.
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