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kan det kun siges om ham, at han efter al rimelighed
Da det derhos
synes lidet tænkeligt, at han blev begraven paa en anden
maa have været en mægtig høvding.
mands ejendom, maa han selv have ejet Gokstad og rime-
ligvis med det store omfang, som gaarden havde, før
nogen deling (jfr. s 2) var indtraadt.
Det er ikke usandsynligt, at der paa flere steder i lan-
det endnu kan ligge nogenlunde bevarede skibe i grav-
hauger nær kysten, dog alene hvor bunden er blaaler.
Men der vil neppe findes noget større og bedre udstyret
fartøj end det her beskrevne, ihvorvel det nok var muligt,
at der kunde komme for dagen et skib, som paa grund
af en usedvanlig omhyggelig bevarelse vilde give oplys-
ning om, hvad der savnes ved Gokstadskibet, og navnlig
vise højden af stavnene og beskaffenheden af rorbænkene.
Sikkert er det, at vi ej ville faa frem af jorden noget
fartøj, som fra formens og arbeidets side overgaar Gok-
stadskibet, da dette efter sagkyndiges dom tør ansees for et
mesterverk i sit slags, som intet værft i vor tid vilde
kunne levere bedre. Vel gjør fartøjet efter vor fore-
stilling mere indtryk af en stor baad end af et skib, men
alligevel viser der sig i dets smukke, hensigtsmæssige
forhold og udmerkede løb en fuldkommenhed, som efter
en meget senere, men lang tids kluntede former først i vort
hundredaar igjen er naaet ved klipperbygningen.
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For the rest only so much can be said of him that he
Further that he
was buried on other than the land owned during life by
must have been a mighty chieftain.
himself, is highly improbable, and it may therefore be
assumed that he owned as an undivided estate all the
farms, now included under the designation Gokstad (conf.
pag. 2).
That there may yet be found in many parts of our
country, near its seacoast, tumuli containing ships in
tolerable preservation, is by no means improbable;
though this can only occur when the underground is
blue clay; but any larger or better appointed vessel than
that herein described, Still,
it is not impossible that one may yet be brought
can scarcely be found.
to light, whose exceptionally careful conservation will
the Gokstad-
ship is still awanting, and specially show the height of
the
? . På
men’s benches in our ancient vessels.
enable us to elucidate that which in
posts and the form and fixing of the oars-
Certain, never-
theless, it is that we shall not disinter any craft which,
in respect of model and workmanship, will outrival that
of Gokstad. For, in the opinion of experts, this must
be deemed a masterpiece of its kind, not to be sur-
passed by aught which the shipbuilding craft of the
present age could produce. Doubtless, in the ratio of
our present ideas, this is rather a boat than a ship;
nevertheless, in its symmetrical proportions, and the emi-
nent beauty of its lines, is exhibited a perfection, never
since attained, until, after a much later but long and
dreary period of clumsy unshapeliness, it was once more
revived in the clipper-built craft of our own century.
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