A rendition of the Scandinavian "Drakkar", or "Dragon" ship. The general lines of this vessel date back into antiquity, and remain in use until the 19th century. A merchant version of this vessel is the "Knorr" (or "Knarr").
This Page was written by I. Marc Carlson
based on material found in a number of sources listed below.
The following drawings are
based on material in those sources.
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A rendition of the Scandinavian "Drakkar", or "Dragon" ship. The
general lines of this vessel date back into antiquity, and remain in use until the 19th
century. A merchant version of this vessel is the "Knorr" (or
"Knarr").
A rendition of a ship from the Cinque ports. Its relationship to the Drakkar and
the Knorr is easy to see.
A rendition of a stern
rudder ship that appears to be a modification
of the Scandinavian lines.
An interpretation of the "Cog", a much larger ship that began to appear in
the 14th Century.
A fight between two cogs from an English psalter (c.1330) (British
Library, MS Roy. 10 E IV, f 19).
Haywood, John. Dark Ages naval power, a reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon
Activity. London and New York: Routledge, 1991.
Landström, Björn. The Ship, an illustrated history. Garden City: Doubleday &
Co., 1961.
Lane, Frederic Chapin. Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univerisity Press, 1992.
Lewis, Archibald R. and Timothy J. Runyan. European naval and maritime history,
300-1500. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Unger, Richard W. The ship in the medieval economy, 600-1600. London: Croom
Helm, c1980.
This page was created by Marc Carlson
It was last edited 27 August 2004
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