EQUIPMENT. 



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After the ship had been launched into the sea the equip- 

 ment was put on board. 



"After Easter King Olaf had his ships launched and equip- 

 ment and oars carried to them, and decks placed in them, and 



Fig. 930. On a stone-wall of the Church of lio .Istrup, Island (if Langeland, Denmark. 



tents put over them, and then let them float at the bridges " 

 (St. Olaf, c. 115). 



" Asbjorn owned a longship which was a twenty-seated 

 snekkja, which stood in -a large naust (ship-shed). After 

 Candlemas he had it pushed forward, the equipments carried 



Fig. 931. Iron kettle. | real size Ultima ship find. 



on board, and everything made ready. He then summoned his 

 friends, and had nearly ninety men, all well armed " (St. Olaf, 

 c. 24). 



It was not always the custom to have cooks on board ship, 

 it being the habit of traders to dispense with their services, 



