snekke
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[edit]snekke (plural snekkes)
- A Viking fighting vessel smaller than a longship
- 2014, “Vikings in the Gulf: Fact or Fancy?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies[1], volume 44, pages 325-36:
- Snekke […] Small warship for Danish waters ca. 1030.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 6, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 125:
- They were excellent, new snekrs, nearly eighty feet long each; with double banks for twelve oars a side in the waist, which was open, save a fighting gangway along the sides; with high poop and forecastle decks; and with one large sail apiece.