An Australian lawyer with a fascination in Norseman has forked out $80,000 on a replica Viking long boat.
Sydney lawyer John Marchant commissioned boat-builders in Tasmania to construct the boat, which has been made with a dragon's head, a bright sail with Thor's hammer, and colourful shields on the sideadorned with the skulls of Marchant's vanquished enemies.
Marchant said he developed an interest in Vikings having studied history as well as law. Rather tenuously Marchant also linked his ancestry to the Vikings since he said his surname "comes from Normandy which was once occupied by the Viking Rollo" who "helped establish many communities". Which may be a polite way to describe the after-effects of a pillage.
Marchant will be displaying the boat at a festival in Newport, Sydney. Unlike the Vikings who prayed to Odin for safe passage across stormy oceans, Marchant will be transporting the boat by trailer as he can't sail. The lawyer hopes to venture out in the sea at some point, as he said "it'll be trial and error, probably more error than trial, but I think it'll be fairly easy to sail."
Sydney lawyer John Marchant commissioned boat-builders in Tasmania to construct the boat, which has been made with a dragon's head, a bright sail with Thor's hammer, and colourful shields on the side
Marchant said he developed an interest in Vikings having studied history as well as law. Rather tenuously Marchant also linked his ancestry to the Vikings since he said his surname "comes from Normandy which was once occupied by the Viking Rollo" who "helped establish many communities". Which may be a polite way to describe the after-effects of a pillage.
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John Marchant (or is it Kirk Douglas?) |
Marchant will be displaying the boat at a festival in Newport, Sydney. Unlike the Vikings who prayed to Odin for safe passage across stormy oceans, Marchant will be transporting the boat by trailer as he can't sail. The lawyer hopes to venture out in the sea at some point, as he said "it'll be trial and error, probably more error than trial, but I think it'll be fairly easy to sail."