{"id":7419,"date":"2015-08-09T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2015-08-09T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:14:42","slug":"a-viking-is-nothing-without-his-oar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7419","title":{"rendered":"A Viking is Nothing without his Oar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7420 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nydam.png?resize=487%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"nydam\" width=\"487\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nydam.png?w=487&amp;ssl=1 487w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nydam.png?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nydam.png?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Nydam ship was found in southern Jutland in 1863. It has recently been dated via dendrochronology to 310\u2013320 CE, and the deposition in the bog where it was found is likely to have taken place 340\u2013350 CE. The picture shows a German replica of the ship, built in 1935.<\/em>((Harald \u00c5kerlund, <em>Nydamskeppen: En studiei tidig skandinavis kskeppsbygnadskonst <\/em>(G\u00f6teborg: Sj\u00f6fartsmuseet, 1963).)) <em>(Photograph in Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landsmuseum.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Norwegian scholar Eidar Heide tracks down the origin of the term &#8220;Viking&#8221; in an etymological article. Like a lot of people, I had thought it came from a word for &#8220;bay&#8221; or &#8220;inlet,&#8221; the first proposed word origin that he examines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eldar-heide.net\/Publikasjonar%20til%20heimesida\/viking%20rowshift.pdf\">Not so, he argues, it&#8217;s all about the rowing \u2014 and the word itself actually predates the era of &#8220;the Vikings&#8221; as we typically think of them (PDF file, in English). <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note to readers: the abstract is at the end of the paper, not the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eldar-heide.net\/\">Scroll down here <\/a>for a link to others of his articles on the history and archaeology of Viking ships, some in English and some in Norweigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nydam ship was found in southern Jutland in 1863. It has recently been dated via dendrochronology to 310\u2013320 CE, and the deposition in the bog where it was found is likely to have taken place 340\u2013350 CE. The picture shows a German replica of the ship, built in 1935.((Harald \u00c5kerlund, Nydamskeppen: En studiei tidig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,134,175],"class_list":["post-7419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-norse","tag-norway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1VF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12557,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12557","url_meta":{"origin":7419,"position":0},"title":"This Ain&#8217;t Your Film Set-CGI Viking Ship","author":"Chas S. 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