Knot

Norse tradition

• Knot appears in Norse tradition.

  Eddic speech uses binding and knot images among fate and craft marks. A named knot mark in that corpus, not endless-knot as the Buddhist form and not a Celtic knot dump.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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European folklore

• Marlinspike is used in Knot.

  Falconer’s Dictionary seats the marlinspike as the tapered iron spike for opening strands when splicing and working knots in rope. A named marlinspike in that ropework speech, not a wooden fid and not a harpoon.

  from William Falconer · Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1769

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• Fid is used in Knot.

  Falconer’s Dictionary seats the fid as the tapered wooden spike for splicing and working rope and knots. A named fid in that ropework speech, not an iron marlinspike and not a bare stick dump.

  from William Falconer · Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1769

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• Chip log is used in Knot.

  Falconer’s Dictionary seats the chip-log (log and line) as the wooden chip, knotted log-line, and glass used to estimate the ship’s speed in knots through the water. A named chip-log in that speed-speech, not a patent log and not the hourglass alone.

  from William Falconer · Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1769

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• Hourglass is used in Knot.

  Falconer’s Dictionary seats sand-glasses among the half-minute and watch glasses run with the log-line when casting the chip-log for knots of speed, and for dividing the watch. A named hourglass in that shipboard timing speech, not a sundial and not the chip-log wood alone.

  from William Falconer · Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 1769

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