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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to ESk Frag 10III

[4] stirðr keipr ‘firm rowlock’: During rowing the oars rested in crescent-shaped wooden pieces inserted into the top strake (see Falk 1912, 70; Jesch 2001a, 155). It is not quite clear how these could be ‘lifted’, but here it seems to denote the oars themselves being lifted in the rowlocks.

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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