While recovering from his injuries, Bob studied his Norwegian heritage and found the story of the Gokstad burial ship that had been unearthed from a burial mound near Sandefjord, Norway, in 1880. The Moorhead Junior High School guidance counselor had shared his dreams of building a Viking ship with his brother Bjarne for years, but his plans were mobilized after a severe fall from a friend's roof that summer. In 1971, one of the descendants of these people - both the Norwegian immigrants and their older Viking counterparts - Robert Asp decided that he would return to the sea. With these ships, the Vikings left their mark on a wide swath of the globe. At the foundation of their influence and reign was the long boat – a vessel adapted for both sailing the high seas and navigating shallow rivers, thanks to the hull's flexibility, the presence of both sails and oars, and a shallow draft. They traveled and traded far, touching down in Canada and exchanging goods from as far east as Iraq. The raider kings and bands of the Norse people, the Vikings ruled the Northern European seas from the 8th through the 11th centuries CE. With those Nordic and German homesteaders came new stories and traditions, often drawing from the history, folklore, and myths of the Vikings. After the Northern Pacific Railroad reached Clay County in 1871, the next several decades featured a wave of prominently Nordic and German homesteaders into the borderland and summer camping grounds of both the Dakota to the West and the Ojibwe or Anishinaabe to the East. However, the ancestors of these landlocked residents were very much seafaring people.
As an otherwise landlocked section of the Upper Midwest, it certainly doesn't conjure images of ships and the open sea. Moorhead, Minnesota, is located on the state's western border, right across the Red River of the North from Fargo, North Dakota.
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