Tranen
The Crane sailed miraculously through a calm path in the fjord while waves lashed high on either side.
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The Crane sailed miraculously through a calm path in the fjord while waves lashed high on either side. (Heimskringla, Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 87. Of Raud'S Being Tortured.)
Heimskringla
- attribution: The king called this ship Tranen (the Crane) (Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 79. Building Of The Ship Crane.)
"The king called this ship Tranen (the Crane)."
- attestation: The Crane sailed miraculously through a calm path in the fjord while waves lashed high on either side. (Heimskringla > The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Norway > 87. Of Raud'S Being Tortured.)
"when all was ready on board the Crane to row, she went into the fjord without the rowers finding any wind; and the sea was curled about their keel track like as in a calm, so quiet and still was the water; yet on each side of them the waves were lashing up so high that they hid the sight of the mountains"
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