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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Þul Skipa 6III/8 — far ‘vessel’

Sǫx, stœðingar,         sviptingr ok skaut,
spíkr, siglutré,         saumr, lokstolpar,
laukr, siglutoppr,         lína, eyru,
flaug, flaugarskegg         ok farnagli.

Sǫx, stœðingar, sviptingr ok skaut, spíkr, siglutré, saumr, lokstolpar, laukr, siglutoppr, lína, eyru, flaug, flaugarskegg ok farnagli.

Bow-rails, braces, reef-point and sail’s corner, spike, mast-tree, nail, forecastle-supports, mast, mast-top, anchor-line, ears, flag, flag-beard and vessel-nail.

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[8] farnagli (m.) ‘vessel-nail’: This could refer to a plug in the bottom of a ship that could be pulled out when a ship was beached so as to allow the bilge water to escape (the same as ModIcel. negla ‘plug’; cf. Falk 1912, 7). Alternatively, it could denote ‘a long nail to pass through a wide bracket into the piece it supported in a ship’ (so SnE 1998, II, 270). The term farnagli is not known from other sources.

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