Snekkja

Signification du mot vieux norrois "snekkja"

Comme défini par le dictionnaire vieux norrois-anglais de Cleasby & Vigfusson :

snekkja

u, f. [A. S. snace; Engl. smack; snakkr or snákr]:—a kind of swift-sailing ship, belonging to the kind of ‘langskip;’ thus called from its swift ‘snake-like’ movement in the water; Ásbjörn átti langskip, þat var S. tvítug-sessa, Ó. H., FmS. v. 337; hann lét reisa langskip mikit, þat var S., skipit var þrítugt at rúma-tali, ii. 50; snekkjurnar flutu þar ekki, Eg. 362; hann lét búa snekkju tvítug-sessu ok með skútu fimmtán-sessu, ok enn vista-byrðing. FmS. vii. 310: þeir höfðu þangað snekkju tvítug-sessu vel skipaða. Eg. 28; tvær snekkjur, ellifu snekkjur, FmS. i. 27, where the verse has skeið, so that skeið and snekkja seems to be synonymous; tvau skip, var annat ‘langskip’ en annat skúta … ok hleypti ‘snekkjunni’ í kaf undir jarlinum, O. H. l. 16 (the verse has here ‘skeið’ Hákonar): snekkja is distinguished from dreki, tvau skip, var annat dreki góðr en annat S., Fb. i. 154; Vinda-snekkjan, FmS. ii. 308.

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Les runes du futhark jeune ont été utilisées du 8ème au 12ème siècle en Scandinavie et dans leurs colonies à l'étranger