Publications

Knud V. Valbjoern, Hans P. Rasmussen, Joern A. Joergensen, Niels Peter Fenger, Max Vinner og Michael Gebühr:

Das Hjortspring-Boot
Ein skandinavisches Kriegskanu aus dem 4. jahrhunderte vor Christus Von Nachbau zur Probefahrt
Archäologisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf und Hjortspringbådens Laug, 2003
(The Hjortspring boat
A Scandinavian war canoe from the 4th century BC From replica to test drive
Archaeological State Museum Schloss Gottorf and Hjortspringbådens Laug, 2003)

Das Kriegsschiff aus dem Opfermoor.

Published in connection with a large Iron Age exhibition containing the original Nydam boat (on loan from the Archäologisches Landesmuseum) and the original Hjortspring-Boat at the National Museum in Copenhagen.
And where our copy of the Hjortspring boat is exhibited at the Archäologisches Landesmuseum at Gottorp Castle in Schleswig instead of the Nydam boat.

The book is sold out!

Ole Crumlin-Pedersen & Athena Trakads, editors:

Hjortspring
A Pre-Roman Iron-age Warship in Context
The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, 2003
ISBN 0901-778X
ISBN 87-85180-521

Hjortspring
A Pre-Roman Iron-age Warship in Context

The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde has published a monograph on the creation of the Hjortrspring boat in English with a summary in English, Danish and German.

The book has the following chapters:

• Excavation
• The boat's preservation, conservation and exhibition
• Building and testing the boat (Tilia Alsie)
• The Hjortspring-Find
• The Hjortspring-Boat and ship depictions in the Bronze and Pre-Roman Iron Age
• The Hjortspring-Boat in a ship archeological context

Authors are employees at the National Museum and members of Hjortspringbådens Laug.

Perhaps this edition can still be purchased by contacting the museum.
Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde has published 7 volumes in the series Ships and Boat of the North .

Translated from the sales brochure:

Hjortspring - an overall picture of a pre-Roman Iron Age warship. Edited by Ole Crumlin-Pedersen and Athena Trakadas.

This is the 5th volume in the series Ships and Boats of the North , published by the Viking Ship Museum and the National Museum's Marine Archaeological Center in collaboration with Hjortspringbådens Laug. Large format (29 x 25 cm), 293 pages, fully illustrated, fixed volume, CD-ROM included with recordings of construction details, surveying and sailing tests with the copy Tilia Alsie. This monograph is published in the series Ships and Boats of the North , with the aim of illustrating the maritime aspects of early cultures in the Nordic countries by presenting and analyzing important primary finds of ships and both in the context of contemporary societies. The Hjortspring-Boat is a particularly good example of the possibilities of studying a prehistoric vessel with its contents as an entrance to an understanding of the community of which the boat was a part. This unique vessel from approx. 350 f.v.t. is both a picture of prestige, power, a perfect craft and a sovereign mastery of shipbuilding in antiquity well over 2000 years ago.

Despite the fact that it is more than eighty years since the Hjortspring Boat was excavated, it has not previously been presented and discussed in depth in English. Here the dramatic history of the original boat is described from the excavation to its current "return" to the exhibition at the National Museum in Copenhagen. The special horns at both ends, with parallels in Bronze Age petroglyphs, are discussed together with the key role the vessel occupies in the early shipbuilding history of the Nordic countries.

A full-scale copy called Tilia Alsie was built by Hjortspringbådens Laug and then tested at sea in collaboration with the National Museum's departments in Copenhagen and Roskilde.
The experience from the tests has provided important clues to the original use of the boat.

Knud V. Valbjørn:

10 år med Tilia til søs
(10 years with Tilia at sea)
Hjortspringlaugets Forlag, 2009

10 years with Tilia at sea.

The booklet is 12 pages, mostly with illustrations, most in color.

It contains the experiences we have had with Tilia in the past 10 years with sailing and trials.

It is expressed in the following chapters:

• Overview of sailings 1999 - 2008
• Constructive choices:
  • Sheer
  • Horns
  • The frame system
• Choice of materials:
  • Sewing Materials
  • Sealing material
  • Wood
  • Surface treatment
• Paddling:
  • Paddles
  • Technology
• Long-distance sailing
• Stability
• Boarding
• Steering
• sails
• last page

This little printed matter can also be seen here:

• Text and images in A4 format
• The image on pages 6 and 7 in A3 format

Ib Stolberg-Rohr

Hjortspringbådens Laug
Reconstruction of shield no. 35

Hjortspringbådens Laug has produced this book in two copies, 1 for the guild and 1 for the author.
It is a description of the manufacture of shield no. 35 from the Hjortspring Find.
From literature studies to a finished shield with all the considerations made along the way.
Many initiatives have no basis in the find.
The book has the following contents:

• Introduction. The guild's studies of shields
• 1. Primary source. Hjortspringfundet, G. Rosenberg
• 2. Other sources
• 3. Drawing basis
• 4. Woodworking
• 5. Painting
• 6. Leather cover
• Conclusions

• The book is not for sale in hard copy, but can be viewed and downloaded here, for free, it is 90 pages long. (Only in Danish).