Medieval Ships

IN my History of American Piracy Class my professor went over a little bit of Medieval ship building so I thought I would find some more info online...

http://www.medievalarchives.com/tag/friends-of-newport-medieval-ship

^ this is an archaeological site working on a medieval ship

and this is an image of a medieval ship from our lecture. Our professor commented on how medieval ships had square sails and still used manned oars as rudders...

C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile

Started reading the recently published C.S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid: Arms and the Exile (ed. A.T. Reyes). Lewis begins his translation of the Aeneid with four unfamiliar lines that according to the introduction are lines that did not appear til (or at least, that there is no recording of until) the 9th century.

"Ille ego, qui quondam gracili modulatus avena

carmen, et egressus silvis vicina coegi

ut quamvis avido parerent arva colono,

gratum opus agricolis: at nunc horrentia Martis

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Arma virumque cano..."

"Lo I am he who led the song through slender reed to cry

And then, come forth from out the woods to hide, the fields that are thereby

In woven verse I bade obey the hungry tillers' need:

Now I, who sang their merry toil, sing Mars and dreadful deed.

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Of Arms and a Man I sing..."