![]() The longship he appropriated for himself, " because ![]() Snake forced down his throat through the hollow stalk of an angelica plant. When assured that he would not be deprived of his property, gold, and silver.Įnraged at this recalcitrance, Olaf had him tortured to death, a wriggling Rauth was defeated in battle and taken captive, but he refused to be baptized, even That vessel had thirty rowers' benches and was large in proportion" There, at Saltenfjord, Olaf confronted Rauth the Strong, a wealthy pagan chieftain who owned "a large dragon ship with "It had thirty rowers'īenches, was high in stem and stern, but not large otherwise" (LXXII). He sailed on the Crane, which had beenīuilt just four years earlier, at the beginning of his reign. "No one durst oppose him, and wherever he fared all the land was Tryggvason, king of Norway, led a large force north to H ålogaland, compelling all whom he encountered toīaptized. It seems to have had no rival until, in the spring of AD 999, Olaf Was built about the same time (circa AD 900). Side -the number of the Gokstad ship, which If the English ships had thirty oars on a side and were almost twiceĪs long, the Danish ships may be assumed to have had perhaps sixteen oars on a Some more they were both swifter, steadier, and with more freeboard than the "They were almost twice as long as the others, some had sixty oars, Three decades later to contend against those of the invadingĭanes. Surmised from the ships that King Alfred of Wessex ordered to be constructed Nothing is said of its size, but it might be In The Saga of Olaf Tryggvason as "a large dragon ship built and "They saw four ships come sailing, one of them a huge dragonship,Īll ornamented with gold.Then many said that the Serpent was a marvelous,īig, and handsome ship, and that it was a grand thing to have so beautiful aĨ68, Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, constructed what is described
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