[Regia-NA] Re: Viking naval warfare

[Brian Lathrop]

Greetings,
The History of Olav Trygvason in Snorre Sturlason's Heimskringla describes the 
battle of svold. Also King Harald's Saga describes the Battle of Nissa, a naval 
battle that accured at the mouth of the River Nissa in August 1062 (King 
Harald's Saga, Penguin Classics, 1966, ISBN 0-14-044183-2)

 :^] Thorkel

-----Original Message-----
From:	Cory W. Nielsen [SMTP:cnielsen@freeport.com]
Sent:	Friday, March 07, 2003 10:10 AM
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Subject:	[Regia-NA] Re: Viking naval warfare

I don't have my books handy, but doesn't King Olaf Trygvason's Saga feature
a large naval battle (combat between men from longship to longship)?

Brett W. McCoy writes:

> A discussion arose the other night amongst some compatriots over whether
> the Vikings had ever fought battles from their longships, part of the
> question being how they might have rowed and battled at the same time, and
> part of the question being whether or not this ever happened in the first
> place (making the first question irrelevant).
>
> Tom provided some interesting info this morning from Snorri Sturluson
> about King Harald Sigurdsson's battle on the Nissa River.  Is there any
> other written evidence that the Vikings ever did combat from their ships?
>
> -- Brett
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