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Tue 05 May 2007Sailing home with the VikingsA museum in Denmark has reconstructed an Irish-built Viking longship which is on its way to Dublin, writes Rosita BolandThe sea can keep secrets for a long time beneath its extensive and ever-changing surface. For centuries, fishermen in Denmark's Roskilde Fjord found pieces of wood in their nets when they hauled them up in the vicinity of Skuldelev. The fishermen focused on fishing, their visceral, primary task, but kept the lore of their inanimate finds alive. They charted their own aural map of what lay where beneath the surface, and passed it on down the generations.