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alt tilbehør, og Skule selv havde i 1239 et stort skib
ved navn Langfredag paa 36 rum’).
I 1247 drog Kong Haakon i Bergen kardinal Vill-
jam af Sabina imøde paa sit skib Dragen, der havde
forgyldte hoveder og 25 rum, medens kardinalen kom
paa en engelsk snekke?) — I 1253 byggede Gunnar
kongsfrænde paa kongens bud ved Ravnsholt i Baahuslen
»et af de største skibe, som nogensinde har været gjort
i Norge«; før det gik af stabelen, holdt kongen en smuk
tale og gav det navnet Korssuden. Det var saa højt,
at dets ræling gik i linje med teltaasene paa Olafssuden
eller 9 (nu 63/4) alen (4.23 m.) over vandet?). — I 1257
lod kongen sætte ud den drage, han havde ladet bygge
i Bergen, og gav den navnet Mariesuden. Den var det
smukkeste skib, som var gjort i Norge, havde 30 rum,
forgyldte hoveder og stavnhalse (svørir) og et med bil-
leder udsyet sejl. Han havde ogsaa mange andre ypper-
lig udstyrede skibe, og naar solen skinnede, saa det ud,
som om hovederne, fløjene og de forgyldte skjolde, der
hang ved stavnene, stod i brand*). Det skib, hvorpaa
han samme aar sendte sin datter Kristine med et stort
følge til Spanien, for at formæles der, var en stor
snekke. Ved den ene side var indrettet en hytte (her-
bergi) for jomfruen og ved den modsatte side en lignende
for de spanske gesanters formand sira Ferdinand, der paa
grund af søsyge (sjöverk) ej kunde være sammen med
andre®). — Endelig havde kongen paa sit tog til Skot-
land i 1263 det store skib, han lod bygge i Bergen; det
var helt af ek og havde 27 rum, forgyldte dragehoveder
og stavne).
Det skib, biskop Haakon i Bergen omtaler i 1339 8)
som sit eget, skulde have 45 rum og vere 4 (nu 3) alen
(1.88 m.) højt i siderne (kinn).
Af alle disse beretninger vil nu for det første sees, at
der kun er ganske faa tilfælde, hvori vi kunne danne os en
sikrere forestilling om hvert enkelt skibs størrelse, und-
tagen om længden af Ormen lange (s. 28) og højden
af de i 1206 (s. 29), 1253 og 1339 byggede skibe,
hvorimod breden kun meget ufuldstændigt viser sig af
angivelsen om telttøjets længde (s. 29). Meget mere op-
lysende i sidstnævnte henseende er det, naar der siges*),
at den raak, som kong Sverre i 1200 lod hugge gjen-
1) Flateyarb. HI, 121. 2) Ib. 166.
p- 438. 9): Ab. 464. 7) D. Norv. VIII no. 119.
3) Konungasög. ed. Unger p. 425, 426.
8) Konungasög. p. 186.
he lent to Duke Skule, in 1221, and Skule himself in
1239, owned a big ship with 36 divisions named «Good
Friday» )).
To meet Cardinal William of Sabina, King Haakon,
in 1247 set out from Bergen in his snip «Dragen»,
which had gilded heads and 25 divisions, while the
Cardinal met him in an English snekke?). By this
King’s order, his Kinsman, Gunnar, i 1253, built, on
Ravnsholt in Bohuslen, «one of the biggest ships that
had ever been constructed in Norway». Before it
was launched, the King delivered an elegant speech,
and named it «Korssuden». So high was this ship that
its gunwale was in line with the ridgepole of «Olafs-
suden’s» tent, or 9 (now 6.75) ells (4.23 m.) above the
waterline 3). In 1257 the King had the «dragon» launched
that he had ordered to be built in Bergen, and gave it
the name, «Mariesuden». It was the most beautiful ship
thitherto built in Norway, had 30 divisions, gilded figure
heads and necks (svérir), as well as sail embroidered with
pictorial designs. The King had also many other excel-
lently equipped ships, and when the sun shone, it
looked as if both the beaks, the pennants and the
gilded shields, which hung at both ends were actually
on fire’). The vessel by which he, in the same year,
sent his daughter Christina with a grand retinue, to
Spain to be married there, was a iarge «sne kker. Qn
the one side a state room (herbergi) was fitted up for
the princess, and a similar one on the opposite side for
the Chief Spanish ambassador Sira Ferdinand, who be-
cause of sea-sickness (sjöverk), could not be with the
others 9).
1263, the King used that large ship which he had built
in Bergen entirely of oak, with 27 divisions and the
Finally, on his expedition to Scotland, in
dragon-heads, prow and stern, all gilded ey.
The ship that Haakon, Bishop of Bergen, speaks of
in 13397) as his own, was stated to have 45 divisions
and to be 4 (now 3) ells (1.88 m) high on its sides
(kinn).
From all these reports it will now be seen first,
that in but very few instances we are able to obtain
more correct conception of each individal ship’s, dimen
sions, except as to the length of «The long Serpent»
(p. 28), and the height of the ships built in 1206 (p. 29),
1253 and in 1339; whereas their breadth is but very
imperfectly shown by statements of the lengths of cloth
used for the tent (p. 29). Much better information in
this matter is to be gained from what is said *) of that
i) Flateyarb. III, 196, 197. 5) Konungasög
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