Which vulnerability increased for Viking longships using ropes?

💡 Explanation

Ropes under tension, interacting with the ship's hull or rigging, experienced abrasion from repeated dynamic loading; fretting fatigue caused progressive degradation of rope fibres, therefore reducing their load-bearing capacity, leading to catastrophic failure, rather than structural weaknesses or frictional increases.

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