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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Þul Skipa 7III

[1] húnn, húnbora (m., f.) ‘masthead, masthead-hole’: According to Jesch (2001a, 160), húnn was ‘the often quadrilateral strengthening of the area at the top of the mast through which the halyards passed and on which the shrouds could rest’. Húnbora ‘masthead-hole’ was the hole in the húnn through which the halyards passed (Falk 1912, 59).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Jesch, Judith. 2001a. Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse. Woodbridge: Boydell.
  3. Falk, Hjalmar. 1912. Altnordisches Seewesen. Wörter und Sachen 4. Heidelberg: Winter.

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