They could cross the open oceans under sail and then switch to oars for lightning-fast hit-and-run attacks on undefended towns and monasteries. Far surpassing contemporary English or Frankish ...

2. Argonaut myth In 300 B.C. Aristotle described his vision of a female argonaut using her shell as a boat and her tentacles as sails and oars. In 2010 octopus experts Julian Finn and Mark Norman ...

complete with oars and a sail. After introducing the project, he edited together a series of clips showing him carving a block of wood, sculpting it with various tools and finishing it with a wood ...

War Sails is Mount & Blade 2's first ever DLC pack, and it looks to introduce sailing, Vikings, and a lot more when it launches later this year.

War Sails will expand Mount & Blade 2's world map and introduce an entirely new region to the world of Calradia: the Northern Kingdoms and its surrounding sea. It's there the Viking-themed Nords call ...

"The blue water, smitten by many oars, might be seen foaming far and wide" wrote a medieval monk who watched a Viking fleet set sail. Above: Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, which commemorates the ...