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Ved Ormen Langes vei.
By the road Ormen Langes vei.
Norsk:
Ormen Lange var eit vikingskip eller langskip som kong Olav Tryggvason av Noreg eigde. Det var ein flott busse som kan ha vore opptil femti meter langt, og var eitt av dei største vikingskipa vi veit om. Det hadde 34 sesser, eller seterekker til roarar, og trengte to eller kanskje tre mann til kvar åre. Skipet vart bygd i år 996 eller 997 ved Ladehammaren i Trondheim. Som kongeskip hadde det eit drakehovud i stavna og ein drakehale bak. Namnet Ormen Lange kan ha kome av Midgardsormen, ein orm i norrøn gudelære.
Ormen Lange skal ha vore bygd etter modell av eit anna skip, eit vakkert drakeskip kalla Ormen som seinare vart kalla Ormen Skamme, eller Ormen Korte. Dette var eit skip på 30 rom som tilhøyrde Raud den Rame i Salten heilt til Olav Trygvasson drap han og tok skipet.
Sidan Ormen Lange var større enn andre skip, med ei høgd frå kjøl til reling som kan ha vore opptil fire meter, gav det store fordelar i strid. Likevel vart skipet teke under slaget ved Svolder, då kongen blei overrumpla av danekongen, sveakongen og norske Eirik Jarl. Då Olav Tryggvason blei skadd måtte han rømma skipet, og drukna truleg i sjøen. Eirik Jarl tok skipet som hærfang, men fekk lita glede av det. Ormen Lange var stygt skadd, og det ville truleg vorte for dyrt å setja skipet i stand og halda det. Det vart lagt i opplag og kanskje brent til slutt.
Ormen Lange vart likevel ikkje gløymt. Det hadde vore vidkjent i samtida si, og fortsette å bli nemnt i soger og songar. Ein av desse er det færøyske kvadet Ormurin Langi, om slaget ved Svolder på til saman 86 vers. Dei fyrste 13 versa vart omsett til norsk av Per Sivle (1857–1904), og vart prenta i avisa Fedraheimen i april 1885. Ormen Lange har òg gjeve namn til eit gassfelt i Norskehavet.
Kjelde: Wikipedia
Innhald: Loggbok, blyant, blyantkvesser, info om geocaching, FTF sertifikat.
Bytteting: speil, klype med pynt, klyper, viskelær.
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English (not the same text, but similar):
Ormen Lange (Long Serpent) was one of the most famous of the Viking longships. It was built for the Norwegian King Olav Tryggvason, and was the largest and most powerful longship of its day. In the late 990s King Olav was on a "Crusade" around the country to bring Christianity to Norway. When he was traveling north to Hålogaland he came to a petty kingdom in today's Skjerstad, where the king named Raud Den Rame refused to convert to Christianity. A battle ensued, during which Saltstraum, a maelstrom that prevented reinforcements to the king's men, forced the King to flee. He continued up north, but returned some weeks later when the maelstrom was weaker. The king won the battle, captured Raud, and gave him two choices: Die or convert. The Sagas say that Olav tried to convert him but Raud cursed the name of Jesus, and the King became so angry that he stuck a "kvanstilk" (a pipe) down his throat and put a snake into it, then a burning iron to force the snake down his throat. The snake ate its way out of the side of the torso of Raud and killed him. After the victory the king confiscated riches, not least of which was Raud's ship, which he rechristened Ormen (The Serpent). He took it to Trondheim and used it as a design for his own new ship, which he made a couple of "rooms" longer than Ormen and named the ship Ormen den Lange.
The ship reportedly had 34 rooms, i.e. was built with 34 pairs of oars, for a crew of 68 rowers (and additional crew members). Extrapolating from archeological evidence (e.g. the Gokstad ship), this would make Ormen Lange nearly 45 meters long. The ship's sides were unusually high, "as high as that of a Knarr".
The ship was the last to be taken in the Battle of Svolder where Olav was killed (although his body was never found; and some stories tell of the king jumping into the water either sinking due to the weight of his armour or escaping in the confusion) by a coalition of his enemies in the year 1000.
Source: Wikipedia.org
Content: Information about geocaching, FTF-certificate, logbook, pencil and pencil sharpener.
Trading items: Eraser, a pinch with garnish, pinches and a mirror.
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