Viking longboats let Norse warriors land, pillage and plunder large parts of Europe and sail off knowing that no other vessels could catch up. 历史上,北欧海盗船曾使得斯堪的纳维亚半岛的海盗们能够在欧洲大部分地区登陆、劫掠并顺利撤离,因为当时的其他种类船只都无法追上他们。
Since then, its members have been embroiled in a decades-long argument over whether to dust off their longboats. 自从那时起,该组织的成员就被卷入了一场旷日持久、于是否应该允许捕鲸人重操旧业的争论。