A project to build a Viking longboat in Darlington, as a way of supporting the mental health of military veterans, is nearing completion.

A project to build a Viking longboat in Darlington ... Work on the longboat began the following year, based on authentic plans supplied by The Maritime Museum in the Danish city of Roskilde.

In 795 AD, Viking longboats arrived at the monastery on the Scottish island of Iona. The raiders killed the monks who lived there and stole anything of value. For the next few hundred years ...