PREHISTORIC NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 641 



Erliug SkjAlgsson liad a flfteen-seated vskuta.' 

 Eindrid the Young bad a snekkja of twenty rum.^ 

 King Haakon's ship Dragon had twenty-five riim/^ 

 King Haakon's dragon Mariasu^en had thirty half rum/ 

 King Haakon in his expedition to Scotland used a dragon of twenty- 

 seven rum.^ 

 Bishop Haakon of Bergen ship had forty-five nun.*' 

 The smallest number of men stationed in a half riim appear to have 

 been two;" when three were employed, one Avas for rowing, the sec- 

 ond to protect the rower, and the third to tiglit.^ When extraordinary 

 speed was required four men were placed at eacli oar,^ while the larg- 

 est number of occupants of a half rum is given at eight men."" 



It is evident that witli an increase of occupants of each rum or half 

 riim a corresi)onding increase had to be made in the dimensions, as 

 shown in the Long Serpent, which, with thirty-four rums, had a lengtli 

 of keel of 110 feet, wiiile the ship of Knut the Great, with less than 

 double the number of oais, measured 300 feet in length. 



The vessels had five compartments, of which two were in the stern, 

 namely, the lofting (lypting), in which the commander had his berth, 

 and the foreroom {fyrirrihn), which was occupied by those next in 

 rank, and which also served as storage place for the great armor chest; '^ 

 two were in the stem, namely, the hah, fffafnlok or lokit, in which the 

 stem-defenders who bore the standard were quartered,'- and aft of this 

 the sax. The central part of the ship, around the mast, occupied by 

 the rowers, was called l-rapparnm. With an increase in the number 

 and size of the oars employed, and in the entire crew, additional 

 accommodations had to be provided both for quarters and for the more 

 successful plying of the oars, which, by an increased size demanded 

 increased internal leverage. While thus in a sixteeu-seater, with a 

 crew of about seventy men (allowing two men for each half divi- 

 sion'^), the stem and stern compartments occupied about 30 to 32 



'Magnus Erliugssous Saga, c.25; Olaf Trygvason Saga, c. 102; St. Olaf Saga, c. 

 60, 150. 



■■'Heimskiiiigla (e<l. I'nger. cit. liy Nicolayseii) i). 7^'4. 



sFlateyarbok ui, 166. 



nbid., 196. 197. 



•'^Konungssoguv (ed. Unger, cit. by Nicolayseu) p. 464. 



«D. Norv VIII, No. 119. 



'Flateyarbok i, 396; in, 41; Egils Saga, c. 58. 



*Hakon Herdibieid Saga, c. 6; St. Olaf Saga, c. 48. 



^Koniingssogur (ed. Ungeri cit., by NicalayseuJ pp. 60, 465. 



"H^laf Trygvasou Saga; Muutl^, ¥-. A; Det noyske Eolka Historic. I, Bd. 2, p. 

 371. 



" Heimskiiugla, p, 709. 



'Uhi(l, p. 53; Egils gaga, c. 37. 



'•'One for rowing, ou« for protection, (n\e for lighting, according to Hakou Herdi? 

 |)rei(l Saga, c.6; St. Oiaf Saga, c. 48, 



^SM 91, PT 2=rr^^il 



