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NORSK NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 



Dimensions of boat positions. 



Positions. 



Length. 



Width. 



Erwahleu, I position, Muschmg, 1 



2 



II position, Lieben, 1 — 



III position, Widser, 1 .. 



2.- 



IV position, NogaUen, 1 . 



Sliiwcek boat, Russia 



Estniah Livonia, Russia 



Stralsund, Germany 



Braidfloar, Gotland, Sweden 



Upland, Sweden 



Blomsholin, Bohuslan, Sweden 



K3,8eberg, Sweden 



Feet. 



31 

 27 

 25 

 31 

 50.9 

 49.0 

 47.10 

 140 

 From 50 to 100 

 130 

 144 

 182 

 141 

 212 



Feet. 



8 

 13 

 10 

 10 

 14 

 10 

 10 

 40 

 About 25 

 16 

 16 

 50 

 31i 

 60 



III. — Boat remains. 

 Although the form of the earliest Northern boats has thus become 

 known to ns, the mode of their construction, whether covered with wood 

 or skins, tied together with withes or sinews, may forever remain a secret. 

 Our first knowledge in this respect is of post-Christian boats belonging 

 possibly to the third century after Christ; and this knowledge was 

 derived from the discovery and excavation, at various times and places, 

 of the remains. Such discoveries were made at [Jltuna,i Lackalanga,^ 

 Borre^ (near Horten, Norway), at Snape,^ Suffolk, England (at which 

 place a boat was dug out, 40 feet 8 inches long, 9 feet 6 inches wide, 

 and 3 feet 10 inches deep, clinker built, containing, among other arti- 

 cles, a glass vessel with projections of a shape similar to one found in 

 the boat discovered at Borre, and being well known from graves of the 

 latter part of the iron age in England, France, and Germany).^ Sim- 

 ilar finds were made in the parish of Tune, and at Gokstad, Norway,^ 

 Nydam Moss, Schleswig, Prussia,^ and other places.^ 



' B. E. Hildebiaud, in Report of the seventh meeting of Scandinavian Natiinilista, 

 Kristiauia, 1856, appendix, p. 644. 



2N. G. Bruzelius, in Annaler for Nordisk Oldkyndighed, 1858, p. 179. 



^Nicolaysen, in the report for 1852 of the Society for the Preservation of Norwegian 

 Antiquities. 



* Davidson, in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, Loudon, 2d ser., vol. 

 ii-iv. 



5C. Roach : Smith's Coll. Ant., vol. ii, pi. li. Cochet, Normandie Souterraiue, pi. x. 



^Nicolaysen, N. : The Viking Ship discovered at Gokstad, in Norway, with a map, 

 10 engravings, and 13 plates. 88 pp., 4°. Kristiauia, Alb. Cammermeyer. Langski- 

 bet fia Gokstad ved Sandefjord. Beskrevet af N. Nicolaysen. Med 1 kort, 10 trjBsnit, 

 og 13 plauclier. Kristiauia, 1882. 



^C. Engelhardt: Denmark in the Early Iron Age. London, 1866, p. 29. Sir John 

 Lubbock: Prehistoric Times. Second editiou. Loudon, 1869, p. 8. Prof. Georg Ste- 

 phens, F. S. A.: "Nydam Moss," in " The Gentleman's Magazine," October, 1863, new 

 series, vol. 15, p. 681. 



»N. torulevu., pp. 20, 179, 245, 551. (Cfr. N. Nicolaysen, Langskibet, etc., p. 12). 

 Aarsber. f. Foreu. t. Norske Fortidsmindesm. Bevar , 1869, 94; 1879,292; 1880,45. 

 (Cfr. Nicolaysen, Langskibet, &c., p. 12.) O. Rygh : Paste fornlovn., og oldsag., i Nor- 

 dre og Sondre Throudhjems Amt, p. 24, i. (Cfr. ISicolaysen, Laugskibet, &c., p. 12.) 

 Skilliug-Magaziu, 1867, pp. 717-719, 724, 738-739. (Cfr. N. Nicolaysen, Langskibet, 

 &c,, p. 12.) Polytekn. Tidsskrift for 1867. (Cfr. N. Nicolaysen, Langskibet, ifec, p. 12.) 



