PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 635 



In 880, the Danes captured, the Duke of Saxony, togetlier with eleven 

 counts, two bishops, many captains and their men.' In 803. a Danish 

 fleet of two hundred and fifty ships landed at the mouth of the 

 Lymne.^ In 894, the Danes among the ^Northumbrians and East An- 

 glians gathered one hundred shii>s and went south to besiege Exeter.^ 

 In 927, King Aulaf entered the Humber with a fleet of six hundred and 

 fifteen sails."* In 993, Olave came to Staines with ninety-three ships.^ 

 In 994, Olave and Sweyn (Olaf, of Korway, and Svein, of Denmark) 

 came to Loudon with ninety-four ships. '^ In 986, Erik the Victorious, 

 of Sweden, appeared upon the North Sea with an enormous fleet, dev- 

 astated Flanders, entered Uie river Elbe, and stormed Stade." In 

 1009, Q'hurkills came to England with a large fleet, and after him came 

 another innumerable fleet of the Danes." In 1012, Svein, with an 

 enormous fleet, entered the port of Sandwich and forced acknowledg- 

 ment by the Anglo Saxons." In lOlG, Knut entered the Thames with 

 one thousand two hundred'" (1,000, 340, or 205 vessels," each carrying 

 eighty men. 



The largest fleet ever assembled in the north is that which in 700 

 met in the battle of Braviill. It reached from Kjoge to Skanor, so that 

 lieople could walk as on a bridge from Zealand over the Sound, a dis- 

 tance of some 20 miles. The fleet of the opposing force consisted of 

 2,500 ships.'2 



DEDUCTIONS. 



In reviewing the preceding the question of parallelism between the 

 ships of the North and those of ancient Greece and Konn\ suggested 

 in the beginning of this paper, may advantageously be introduced by a 

 brief description of the more imj^ortant points of similarity and dissim- 

 ilarity of construction. 



It has been shown that the war ship of antiquity was not a vessel of 

 great dej)th, but that it was rather of slight build and of compara- 

 tively' small weight, as is evident from the fact that it was often hauled 

 asliore without the application of any special apparatus, and from the 

 very short time often required for their construction.'" They had a 



'Annal. Fuldens, a. h. a. s English Clirouifle. 



sEiio-lishChroii. ''•Ibid. 



^English Chrouicle. '^ Adam. Bremen, i c ii c. 29, 317. 



'*Ibi(L '^Euglish Chronicle. 



^Encomium Emmae Reginae, in Langebek, Script. Rer. Dan. ii, 176. 



'"English Chron. ; Fagrskinua .Saga i, c. 104; Olaf Trygvasou 8aga i, S9; Forn- 

 nianna Sognr. 



" Jf/rtHj. Jirem., ii, c. 70; Encom. Emmae Reginae, 471; Chron. Saxon. 



'■- Worsaae: Zur Alterthnmskunde cles Nordeu.s, p. 91. 



'Tt may be stated hei'c that the (according to Polyb., i, 20, 9, 120, according to 

 OrosiuSjiv, 7, 130) ships of Duiliusand Scipio were built in sixty days, while (accord- 

 ing to Polyb., I, 38, 5) only forty-five days were consumed in the construction of 

 220 ships for Hieron. 



