Drengir, dragreip, dæla, árar,
aktaumar, rœr, arinn ok nálar,
aurborð, kjalarhæll ok akkeri,
hnakkmiði, ausker ok húnspænir.
Drengir, dragreip, dæla, árar, aktaumar, rœr, arinn ok nálar, aurborð, kjalarhæll ok akkeri, hnakkmiði, ausker ok húnspænir.
Ties, halyard, dale, oars, braces, clinch-plates, arinn and needles, sand-strake, keel-heel and anchor, buoy-rope, bailer and crow’s nest.
[2] dæla (f.) ‘dale’: The term for a kind of gutter that was used to empty out the bilge water (Falk 1912, 6); cf. dalr ‘dale, valley’ (AEW: dæla and OED: dale, n.3). The word does not otherwise occur as a nautical term in skaldic verse, but it is used in kennings for ‘ship’ in later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: dæla).