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Viking Sailing: Simulation of Viking era small ship sailing (1.0.0)

Viking Sailing is a spatially explicit agent-based simulation for conditional exploration of how rasterized coastlines, wind, and
surface-current conditions interact with simplified ship movement, sailing, rowing, navigation, and land-avoidance rules. The
model compares simulated route trajectories and terminal outcomes for hypothetical Viking-era small-ship voyages. It includes an example dataset representing sea surface winds and currents from June 1000 CE. Additional data can are downloaded from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/23213147.

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Viking Sailing: Simulation of Viking era small ship sailing 1.0.0

Submitted by C Michael Barton Published Oct 07, 2026 Last modified Oct 07, 2026
Vikings seafaring sailing navigation

Viking Sailing is a spatially explicit agent-based simulation for conditional exploration of how rasterized coastlines, wind, and
surface-current conditions interact with simplified ship movement, sailing, rowing, navigation, and land-avoidance rules. The
model compares simulated route trajectories and terminal outcomes for hypothetical Viking-era small-ship voyages. It includes an example dataset representing sea surface winds and currents from June 1000 CE. Additional data can are downloaded from Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/23213147.

Release Notes

First public release.

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C Michael Barton (2026, October 07). “Viking Sailing: Simulation of Viking era small ship sailing” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/54d73f7c-d1a9-475d-ad71-84a720c351b4/releases/1.0.0/

References

Indruszewski, G., Barton, C.M., 2008a. Simulating sea surfaces for modeling Viking Age seafaring in the Baltic Sea, in: Clark, J.T., Hagemeister, E. (Eds.), Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage. CAA 2006. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Proceedings of the 34th Conference, Fargo, United States, April 2006. Archaeolingua, Budapest, pp. 616–630.

Indruszewski, G., Barton, C.M., 2008b. Cost surface DEM modelling of Viking Age seafaring in the Baltic Sea, in: Frescher, B., Dakouri-Hild, A. (Eds.), Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digitial Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, International Series. British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, pp. 56–64.

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Contributors
C Michael Barton
Input Data
zenodo.org/records/23213147
DOI
No assigned DOI
Model Version
1.0.0
License
GPL-3.0
Programming Language
NetLogo 7.04
Software Framework
NetLogo 7.0.4
Operating System
Operating System Independent
Publish Date
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
Last Updated
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
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Version Submitter First published Last modified Status
1.0.0 C Michael Barton Wed Oct 7 13:37:46 2026 Wed Oct 7 13:37:48 2026 Published

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