[123]. Cf. also Olaf Tryggvason, c. 102; St. Olaf, c. 60, 150.
[124]. The Nydam and Gokstad boats seem to have been a fifteen-seated skuta or karfi. Some skutas seem to have carried a crew of about thirty men.
[126]. Cf. also St. Olaf, c. 132, 149; Magnus Blind’s Saga, c. 5, 16; Magnus Erlingson, c. 30.
[127]. See Battle of Svold.
[128]. This may explain the name Askmanni given to the Vikings by Adam of Bremen (c. 212).
[129]. Cf. also Ingi’s Saga, c. 1.
[130]. In the lypting seems to have been the sleeping-room, for in Harald Hardradi’s Saga, c. 22, it is said of Harald, on his journey from Constantinople, that “in the evening (he) went to sleep in the lypting of his ship.”
[131]. Ship boat, also a small vessel.
[132]. Cf. also Eyrbyggja, c. 29.