Viking Ship Construction - Steering

A Viking Age Rudder, showing it's slender cross-section and the various anchor points, trailing line to raise it and the point where the tiller bar was slotted in.

The usual layout of the Tiller and Rudder.

The carved Tiller from the Oseberg ship.

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Last updated 9 April, 2003. Article by Kim Siddorn and Roland Williamson 1999 (Illustrations by Roland Williamson).
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