knorrn.
A medieval type of ship of Northern Europe, having a single sail (see quots.).
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1889 P. B. Du Chaillu Viking Age II. xiii. 212 We find them [sc. trading ships] mentioned under their different names—viz., Knörr, Kugg, Byrding (ship of burden), Vistabyrding, [etc.].
1932 C. M. Smith Northmen of Adventure xiv. 320 The round ships went under a variety of names. The largest class was the knorr.
1967 H. Harrison Technicolor Time Machine xi. 114 Where the dragon-prowed Viking ship was long and narrow, this knorr was wide and stood high out of the water—and was at least a hundred feet long.
1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings iii. ii. 188 Captain Folgar..in 1932 took a replica of a 60-foot knörr across the Atlantic.
1971 S. E. Morison European Discov. Amer.: Northern Voy. iii. 35 The Norse discoverers of Greenland and Vinland did not use a long Viking ship... There is ample evidence that they used the knarr, a beamy type propelled principally by one big square sail made of a coarse woolen cloth called ‘wadmal’, rigged with an additional sprit to set well close-hauled.
1973 Country Life 17 May 1373/2 A Knarr, the cargo ship in which the great [Viking] voyages to Greenland and North America were made.
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