Sailing again: The Sea Stallion is shown here on a practice run before its voyage last summer.Courtesy Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, DenmarkIf you have a memory that's good for at least a year, you'll recall that we had a post here this time in 2007 about the start of a Viking ship re-creation trip from Denmark to Ireland. Well, on Sunday the same gang of Viking-wannabes will be retracing their trip from Dublin to a viking ship museum in Denmark.

Smithsonian Magazine has some interesting preview stories about this year's effort. You can access the print version here and watch video here, which includes some pretty cool Viking sea chanty singing. Last year's trip was plagued by some of the coldest, stormies weather that northern European seas had seen in ages. The video gives you a good feel of how harrowing it must have been a thousand years ago for the original Vikings to take off on such a trip. And they didn't have Gor-Tex clothing, GPS and other modern convienences to help them get through the ordeal.

The official website of the Sea Stallion is linked here.