The Knarr is mostly found in Norway, Denmark and San Francisco.

These early cogs were influenced by the Norse Knarr, which was the main trade vessel in northern Europe at the time, and probably used a steering oar, as there is nothing to suggest a stern rudder in northern Europe until about 1240.

* Rebuilding and sailing a Viking Knarr ship

* Norwegian Knarr homepage

The Snorri ( a Skuldelev I Knarr ) was sailed from Greenland to Newfoundland in 1998, for example.

In 2010 the International Knarr Championship ( IKC ) were held at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco.

After this happened Aud, who was at Caithness, learned of her son ’ s death and built a Knarr, a Viking era ship commonly built for Atlantic voyages.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The abacus ( plural abaci or abacuses ), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes.

The preferred plural of abacus is a subject of disagreement, with both abacuses and abaci in use.

Specifically, is the neuter plural of, an adjective related to the verb ἀποκρύπτω ἀποκρύπτειν ( apocriptein ), " to hide something away.

An acropolis (; akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city ; plural: acropoleis or acropolises ) is a settlement, especially a citadel, built upon an area of elevated ground — frequently a hill with precipitous sides, chosen for purposes of defense.

The term " Almoravid " comes from the Arabic " al-Murabitun " () which is the plural form of " al-Murabit " literally meaning " One who is tying " but figuratively means " one who is ready for battle at a fortress ".

Arthritis ( from Greek arthro -, joint +-itis, inflammation ; plural: arthritides ) is a form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

( plural ), the term used to identify those who practice Ásatrú is a compound with ( Old Norse ) " man ".

In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

A Goði or Gothi ( plural goðar ) is the historical Old Norse term for a priest and chieftain in Norse paganism.

The Western suffix-e is from the Classical singular and the Eastern suffix-its is from the Classical plural ; both have been generalized for singular and plural in the dialects that use them.

In ancient Roman religion, an aedicula ( plural aediculae ) is a small shrine.

Amphisbaena (, plural: amphisbaenae ), amphisbaina, amphisbene, amphisboena, amphisbona, amphista, amphivena, or anphivena ( the last two being feminine ), a Greek word, from amphis, meaning " both ways ", and bainein, meaning " to go ", also called the Mother of Ants, is a mythological, ant-eating serpent with a head at each end.

The currency of the country is the lev ( plural leva ), pegged to the euro at a rate of 1. 95583 leva for 1 euro.

The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).

This term is used predominantly in the plural to describe the lowest sails on a square rigged vessel, i. e., a ship's courses would be the foresail, mainsail, and, on the rare occasions in which one is shipped, mizzen.

One form of itriyya with a long history is laganum ( plural lagana ), which in Latin refers to a thin sheet of dough, and gives rise to Italian lasagna.

A hypha ( plural hyphae ) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus, and also of unrelated Actinobacteria.

Words must be at least three letters long, may include singular and plural ( or other derived forms ) separately, but may not use the same letter cube more than once per word.

Use of the plural, " nations ," to refer to non-Jews is found from " I will cast out the nations before thee " ( Exodus 34: 24 ) and long before Roman times it had also acquired the meaning of " gentile ".

Still, the practice of plural marriage continues among the members of various fundamentalist splinter groups long disassociated from the main body of the church, such as the Apostolic United Brethren ( AUB ) and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( FLDS ).

They are called thus from their Latin name litterae patentes long used by mediaeval and later scribes when such documents were written in Latin, expressed in the plural, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of the word as an " epistle " or item of correspondence ; thus no singular form exists.

Such situation is most common in ( but not exclusive to ) the plural genitive case, thus the name " genitive sign " for the circumflex and is pronounced as a long vowel.

The sternum ( from Greek στέρνον, sternon, " chest "; plural " sternums " or " sterna ") or breastbone is a long flat bony plate shaped like a capital " T " located anteriorly to the heart in the center of the thorax ( chest ).

The cheval de frise ( plural: chevaux de frise ) was a medieval defensive obstacle consisting of a portable frame ( sometimes just a simple log ) covered with many projecting long iron or wooden spikes or spears.

The Church of Jesus Christ has long rejected plural marriage, celestial marriage, two separate priesthoods, and many other doctrines taught by some other Latter Day Saint movement denominations.

Objet d ' art ( plural objets d ' art ) means literally " art object ", or work of art, in French, but in practice the term has long been reserved to describe works of art that are not paintings, large or medium sized sculptures, prints or drawings.

As for the fening, the paucal is feninga with a short unstressed a, whereas the genitive plural is feninga with a long unstressed a.

In cases where the genitive stem already ends in a long vowel the ending is-seen ( singular ) and-siin ( plural ).

The reform reduced the number of orthographic rules having no support in pronunciation — for example, the difference of the genders in the plural and the need to learn a long list of words which were written with " yat " s ( the composition of said list was controversial among linguists, and different spelling guides contradicted one another ).

A Boofe ( plural: Boofen ) is local slang for sleeping out overnight in the open under a rock overhang and has a long tradition in Saxon Switzerland.

Spitz-type dogs ( the correct German plural is Spitze, though spitzen is commonly used in the English ) are a type of dog, characterized by long, thick, and often white fur, and pointed ears and muzzles.

The plural form of the word in the Arabic language is maharim with long second vowel ( Arabic محارم, also transliterated maharem ).

Also, Yucatec has contrastive laryngealization ( creaky voice ) on long vowels, sometimes realized by means of a full intervocalic glottal stop and written as a long vowel with an apostrophe in the middle, as in the plural suffix-o ' ob.

Microscopically, perikymata ( Greek plural of perikyma ) are the pits around the long prisms of tooth enamel.

According to Williams ' definitive Dictionary of the Māori Language, tangata means " man " or " human being ", whilst tāngata ( with the long ā ) is the plural meaning " people "; tangata ( without the macron ) can also mean " people " in reference to a group with a singular identity.

This language shows a number of Hebrew features have been taken into Jewish Aramaic: the letter He is often used instead of Aleph to mark a word-final long a vowel and the prefix of the causative verbal stem, and the masculine plural ending-īm often replaces-īn.

Other words originally plural have been notionally singular for so long that it is always considered correct to follow them by a singular verb: news, means, and mathematics.

The first element in Skjækerfjella is the plural skjæker which means " shafts ( of a wagon )"-here referring to long mountain ridges.