Beardestapol – Barnstaple
Beck- a stream
Blót – a blood sacrifice made by a jarl
Bondi- Viking farmers who fight
Bjorr – Beaver
Byrnie- a mail or leather shirt reaching down to the knees
Cantwareburh- Canterbury
Chape- the tip of a scabbard
Drekar- a Dragon ship (a Viking warship) pl. drekar
Dun Holm Durham
Dyflin- Old Norse for Dublin
Eoforwic- Saxon for York
Føroyar- Faroe Islands
Fey- having second sight
Firkin- a barrel containing eight gallons (usually beer)
Fret-a sea mist
Fyrd-the Saxon levy
Galdramenn- wizard
Gighesbore – Guisborough
Gippeswic- Ipswich
Heiða-býr – Hedeby in Schleswig- destroyed in 1066
Hersir- a Viking landowner and minor noble. It ranks below a jarl
Herterpol – Hartlepool
Hoggs or Hogging- when the pressure of the wind causes the stern or the bow to droop
Hrofescester- Rochester, Kent
Hundred- Saxon military organization. (One hundred men from an area-led by a thegn or gesith)
Isle of Greon- Isle of Grain (Thames Estuary)
Jarl- Norse earl or lord
Joro-goddess of the earth
kjerringa - Old Woman- the solid block in which the mast rested
Knarr- a merchant ship or a coastal vessel
Kyrtle-woven top
Mast fish- two large racks on a ship designed to store the mast when not required
Midden- a place where they dumped human waste
Miklagård - Constantinople
Njörðr- God of the sea
Nithing- A man without honour (Saxon)
Ocmundtune- Oakhampton
Odin- The ‘All Father’ God of war, also associated with wisdom, poetry, and magic (The Ruler of the gods).
Østersøen – The Baltic Sea
Ran- Goddess of the sea
Roof rock- slate
Saami- the people who live in what is now Northern Norway/Sweden
Sabrina- The River Severn
Scree- loose rocks in a glacial valley
Seax – short sword
Sennight- seven nights- a week
Sheerstrake- the uppermost strake in the hull
Sheet- a rope fastened to the lower corner of a sail
Shroud- a rope from the masthead to the hull amidships
Skald- a Viking poet and singer of songs
Skeggox – an axe with a shorter beard on one side of the blade
Skreið- stockfish (any fish which is preserved)
Skjalborg- shield wall
Snekke- a small warship
Stad- Norse settlement
Stays- ropes running from the masthead to the bow
Strake- the wood on the side of a drekar
Tarn- small lake (Norse)
The Norns- The three sisters who weave webs of intrigue for men
Thing-Norse for a parliament or a debate (Tynwald in the Isle of Man)
Thor’s day- Thursday
Threttanessa- a drekar with 13 oars on each side.
Thrall- slave
Trenail- a round wooden peg used to secure strakes
Úlfarrberg- Helvellyn
Ullr-Norse God of Hunting
Ulfheonar-an elite Norse warrior who wore a wolf skin over his armour
Verðandi -the Norn who sees the future
Volva- a witch or healing woman in Norse culture
Walhaz -Norse for the Welsh (foreigners)
Waite- a Viking word for farm
Withy- the mechanism connecting the steering board to the ship
Wintan-ceastre -Winchester
Woden’s day- Wednesday
Wyrd- Fate
Wyrme- Norse for Dragon
Yard- a timber from which the sail is suspended