lagu-cræftig

lagu-cræftig, adj: skilled in seamanship. (LAH-guh-KRAF-tih / ˈla-gʌ-ˌkræf-tɪj)

Medieval manuscript image of three men in a single-sailed ship, two of whom hold oars.
Chansonnier provençal; Italy, c. 1285-1300; Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.819, f. 190r. [ica.themorgan.org]

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.