Snekkja
Old Norse Dictionary - snekkja
Meaning of Old Norse word "snekkja"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- 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.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚾᛁᚴᚴᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- S.
- Saga.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- O. H. L.
- Ólafs Saga Helga Legendaria. (E. I.)
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)