The norse kings had an organised system for assembling a navy
(the "Leidang") when necessary.
"Trana" - ca 995 AD; a ship built for king Olav Tryggvason of Norway (973
- 1000 AD).
"Ormen Skamme" - a.k.a. "Ormen Korte" - ca 990 AD; Longship of dragon-class
built in the end of the 10th century for the chieftain Raud den ramme, Salten,
Hålogaland, northern Norway.
"Ormen Lange" - ca 996 AD; built for the norwegian king Olav Tryggvason
in the end of the 10th century AD at Ladehammaren in Trondheim, Norway. In
the yeare 1000 AD all these three ships took part in the famous sea Battle
at Svolder, commonly believed to be close to todays Rügen in Germany.
In this bloodshed king Olav Tryggvason was defeated and killed by a party
of the dane king Svein, the svea king Olav and earl Eirik Håkonsson
from Norway. After the battle the "Ormen Lange" was taken by earl Eirik.
"Barden" - 980 - 990 AD; "Barden" was the ship of Earl Eirik of Norway and
was is use around yeare 1000. It was large and had a high gunwhale. Snorre
Sturlason about the ship: "Earl Eirik had a very large "barde" which he used
in viking; it had "beard" at the top of both stems (fore and aft), and from
this a thick ironplate as wide as the keel, reaching all the way down to the
water."
"Visund" - ca 1020; "Visund" was the ship of king Olav Haraldson (St. Olav)
of Norway. It was large, perhaps of the same size as "Ormen Lange". Its stem
had a golden head of a horned vicent (european bison) instead of a dragons
head, giving the ship its name "Visund". The ship is classified as a large
"skeide" in the saga.
"Ormen" - 1060 AD; the ship of king Harald Sigurdsson Hårdråde of
Norway (1015 - 1066). It was built in Nidaros (todays Trondheim) in Norway
around 1060. The ship has the same name as the earlier "Ormen Lange", which
was probably was the model for this ship. Snorre Sturlason tells about this
ship in detail in his saga about Harald Hårdråde.
"Bøkesuden" - 1122 AD; The "Bøkesuden" was built in Nidaros
in Norway by king Øystein Magnusson just before he died in 1123. The
ship was of the same size as Ormen Lang, with a dragon head in the stern and
a hook-like stern.
"Reinen" - (The "Reindeer) 1130 AD; 22 room (sections) large ship from Hålogaland
in northern Norway.
The ship of Earl Filippus - 1206 AD; This was a longship built in Tønsberg,
Norway i 1206. It had very high gunwhale and 36 "rooms". This is even more
than "Ormen Lange", suggesting a total length of perhaps 50 m. Its width is
said to have been 25 "alen", equal to ca 15 m. It had two rows of oars with
48 oars in the upper row and 24 oars in the lower row.
"Mariasuden;" 36 room large. Mentioned in the saga in 1256. Built for king
Håkon Håkonssen in Bergen.