[Hatteras]

"The planks of the ship are not nailed down, but sewn together with rope."

Which is probably the reason it was a shipwreck.

Hmmmm... well I guess that didn't work, Olaf, maybe we should try nails...

[BitWielder1]

Which is probably the reason it was a shipwreck.

I'm with you. The Vasa sank on it's maiden voyage because it was a poor top-heavy design.
This new shipwreck sounds like another victim of natural selection.

[Little Ray]

Actually, that's not a “completely unknown technology.”
It also turns out relatively flexible ship that that is resistant to the waves. Sort of “goes with the flow” as it were.

I guess it was just unknown in Scandinavia.

[BenLurkin]

Exactly.

[Beowulf9]

and they have it lying out there in the snow? Where is the dig site? I can’t figure out this photo.

“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.”

~ Rime of the Ancient Mariner

and when the boards shrink, gee, I guess the ropeth, she leteth goeth...