Þul Skipa 2III/1 — Byrðingr ‘Freighter’
Byrðingr, búza, barðkaldr ok hreinn,
bakki, hǫmlungr, hélugbarði,
rǫst, bátr ok regg, rǫð, Hringhornir,
lung, kjóll, langskip, leifnir, karfi.
Byrðingr, búza, barðkaldr ok hreinn, bakki, hǫmlungr, hélugbarði, rǫst, bátr ok regg, rǫð, Hringhornir, lung, kjóll, langskip, leifnir, karfi.
Freighter, merchant-ship, prow-cold one and reindeer, ferry, oar-strapped one, rimy-prowed one, rǫst, boat and regg, rǫð, Hringhornir, long-boat, barge, longship, leifnir, carvel.
readings
[1] Byrðingr: ‘B[…]gr’ B, ‘Býrdingr’ 744ˣ
notes
[1] byrðingr, búza (m., f.) ‘freighter, merchant-ship’: Both terms denote large merchant-ships. While the first is an indigenous Old Norse word (cf. borð and byrði ‘ship’s side’), the second is a loanword (< MLG būtze, būse < MLat. buza, bucia ‘ship for transporting cargo’; AEW: búza, bússa). Neither ship-heiti occurs in skaldic verse, but both terms are found in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: byrðingr; búza). See Falk (1912, 110-12). It is possible that Skuldelev 3, a fourteen-metre long coastal trader with a carrying capacity of 4-5 tons, was a byrðingr (Crumlin-Pedersen 2010, 110).