Year: 2012 Language: English Author: Eldar Heide Publisher: Sjøfartshistorisk Årbok Edition: 2nd Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 78 Description: In this title the author attempts to sift out from Old Norse (ON) written sources the early Viking Age terms for ship types and to link them to actual ships and ship depictions from that period. The author argues that knǫrr, beit, skeið, kjóll, askr, and elliði were the main ship types of the early Viking Age in Scandinavia, at least in the west, and that knerrir referred during this period to warships like Oseberg and only later to cargo ships like Skuldelev 1. ‘A ship with a backwards curved stem’ seems to have been the original meaning of knǫrr. Kjólar were heavy, all-round ships like Gokstad, the author argues, and beit were very early ships with angular stems known from depictions. Skeiðar were low, narrow ships like Ladby. Askar were also very early, small, light ships with stitched planking, whereas elliðar were combined inland / sea vessels, originally Eastern European. - The main ship types of early Viking Age were knorr, beit, skeið, kjóll, askr, and elliði. - Knorr originally meant 'warship' with a backward-curved stem, later shifting to 'cargo ship.' - Kjóll referred to heavy all-round ships like Gokstad, used for long-distance transport. - Elliði likely represented a flat-bottomed vessel for combined inland and sea use, borrowed from Slavic cultures. This autor aims to connect Old Norse ship terminology to archaeological findings from the early Viking Age.
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The Early Viking Ship Types
Language: English
Author: Eldar Heide
Publisher: Sjøfartshistorisk Årbok
Edition: 2nd
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 78
Description: In this title the author attempts to sift out from Old Norse (ON) written sources the early Viking Age terms for ship types and to link them to actual ships and ship depictions from that period. The author argues that knǫrr, beit, skeið, kjóll, askr, and elliði were the main ship types of the early Viking Age in Scandinavia, at least in the west, and that knerrir referred during this period to warships like Oseberg and only later to cargo ships like Skuldelev 1. ‘A ship with a backwards curved stem’ seems to have been the original meaning of knǫrr. Kjólar were heavy, all-round ships like Gokstad, the author argues, and beit were very early ships with angular stems known from depictions. Skeiðar were low, narrow ships like Ladby. Askar were also very early, small, light ships with stitched planking, whereas elliðar were combined inland / sea vessels, originally Eastern European.
- The main ship types of early Viking Age were knorr, beit, skeið, kjóll, askr, and elliði.
- Knorr originally meant 'warship' with a backward-curved stem, later shifting to 'cargo ship.'
- Kjóll referred to heavy all-round ships like Gokstad, used for long-distance transport.
- Elliði likely represented a flat-bottomed vessel for combined inland and sea use, borrowed from Slavic cultures.
This autor aims to connect Old Norse ship terminology to archaeological findings from the early Viking Age.
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