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Locals dressed in tunics, capes and feather-tipped helmets brandished axes and hurled burning torches into a replica of a Viking longboat.

The largest wooden boat festival in North America is a rare chance to see and sail 300 of the finest specimens, from schooners to longboats.

The horses and dogs would have travelled on Viking longboats across the North Sea, a journey that could take several weeks.

Rubber boats, speedboats and a local longboat were being used in the search for the others.

The ship anchors, the longboat is lowered, and the first few passengers began to climb down the rope ladder.