Pushing a bit beyond both ends of what is usually considered the "Viking age" for filming of a History Channel program on the historical basis of, and the later romantic legends about, King Arthur, this last autumn the Fyrdraca first underwent a temporary makeover to become a 6th century Saxon ship, the Blace Hors (i.e Black Horse). Small inlets in southern Maryland served as the fog-shrouded estuaries of Britain, as Longship Company members portrayed the Saxon invaders and colonizers against whom Arthur is said to have led the British resistance forces. Later, converted back to its more usual appearance, the Fyrdraca became a funerary ship for the Arthur of legends set in late medieval times, in which mourning ladies of his court carried his body off into the sunset of Avalon.

- Longship Company web site.