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Description
This is the langskip, the Viking Longboat.
The word drakkar is only a recent creation ( 1830) and comes from the ancient scandinavian drekar (dragons), a wink to the decoration found at the bow of Viking warships.

This one is the Gokstad ship, a burial ship found at the Gokstad farm in Sandar, Norway.
A Viking high born who died on land was sometimes buried in a longship instead of being burnt (some historians even doubt that the burning ship ceremony ever existed). The ship was then buried under a burial mound.

The deceased was dressed in new, daily clothes together with his belongins, food, drink and of course his weapons. His cattle, warhorses and often one of his female servants were also sacrificed and buried with him.

Description
This is the langskip, the Viking Longboat.
The word drakkar is only a recent creation ( 1830) and comes from the ancient scandinavian drekar (dragons), a wink to the decoration found at the bow of Viking warships.

This one is the Gokstad ship, a burial ship found at the Gokstad farm in Sandar, Norway.
A Viking high born who died on land was sometimes buried in a longship instead of being burnt (some historians even doubt that the burning ship ceremony ever existed). The ship was then buried under a burial mound.

The deceased was dressed in new, daily clothes together with his belongins, food, drink and of course his weapons. His cattle, warhorses and often one of his female servants were also sacrificed and buried with him.