:: The Vikings of Bjornstad :: Viking Ship Terms Old Norse to English
The Viking Age was marked by ships of Scandinavian design
appearing without warning in waters from Byzantium to North America. The
terms in the dictionary below would have been well known to the Norse who
sailed those ships.
Old Norse
English
akkeri
anchor
ak-taug
halyard
aktaumr
brace
(Continued
below the diagrams)
(Used with the kind permission of the Viking Ship Museum,
Roskilde)
A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language and Culture,
Linguistics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Old Norse
Online Base Form Dictionary, Jonathan Slocum and Todd B. Krause,
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/norol-BF.html
E.V. Gordon, An Introduction to Old Norse
Ross G. Arthur, English-Old Norse Dictionary,
www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/English-Old_Norse.pdf
Birthe L. Clausen, ed., Viking Voyages to North America, The
Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark, 1993
