PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 



597 



The spur occurs in a boat found iu Nydam Moss, Sleswig (PI. Lxxv), 

 aud described iu the early i)art of tliis book. Iu this boat the ends of 

 the iveel pUiuk coutiaued beyond the stem and stern aiul tapered into 

 points, and it is suppose*! that these points were covered with irou for 

 use on either side of the ship. 



Fig. 114. 

 Side Helm in a Ship on a Stone in Alsno Parish. Upland, Sweden. 



;Fn>m Dii Chaillu, "The Vikmg Age," 11, [). U'i, Fig. 91.').) 



I'^or defensive purposes a war girdle {viggyrdi I) or war hurdle (vigMeM) 

 s\ ,i.s placed ui»on the ship. Their ai)plication is not qnite intelligible 

 lioiii the few meager accounts given.* 



Fig. 115. 

 Side Hel»i in Ship on Bayeux Tapestry. 



' The Bayeux Tapentry," in Scribner's Maga 



All the ships of the Xorthmeu of which accounts have been handed 

 down or of which the remains have been found show that they were 



'"Kiug Sverri had all lii.s ships ready and war-girdled at the gangways" (Sverri's 

 Saga, c. 52) and King Harald, pursued by King Svein, of Denmark, ordered the 

 viijrjyrdUes and other things to be thrown into the sea. 



-Harald Hardradi Saga, c. 35. 



