Beautiful work as always Olha. Interesting fact: Vikings did not use the term ‘rudder’. They referred to it as the ‘steering board’, which comes down to us as ‘starboard’, meaning the right side of the ship. Interesting because the ‘steering board’ was always attached to the right side of Viking ships - I have no idea why this is the case. It would be interesting too, to know whether there was some advantage to the placement…
Yes. I wondered whether the placement might give a right-handed person some kind of mechanical advantage, but couldn’t visualise how that might show itself… Thanks for the comment.
One theory ,not exclusive to the Norse ,is that the steering board side was kept away from the dock side of the boat. The older name for the port side being larboard coming from loading board or modern gangway.
The mast step in original norøna (viking language) was called "kærlingen" (loved one). So: the place i put my "mast"! The rest is up to your imagination😉
