Two ships of the
Royal Norwegian Navy
The Royal Norwegian Navy ( no, Sjøforsvaret, , Sea defence) is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of Norway. , the Royal Norwegian Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, ...
have borne the name HNoMS ''Brage'', after the
Norse
Norse is a demonym for Norsemen, a medieval North Germanic ethnolinguistic group ancestral to modern Scandinavians, defined as speakers of Old Norse from about the 9th to the 13th centuries.
Norse may also refer to:
Culture and religion
* Nor ...
skald
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: , later ; , meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry, the other being Eddic poetry, which is anonymous. Skaldic poems were traditionall ...
ic god
Bragi
Bragi (; Old Norse: ) is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.
Etymology
The theonym Bragi probably stems from the masculine noun ''bragr'', which can be translated in Old Norse as 'poetry' (cf. Icelandic ''bragur'' 'poem, melody, w ...
:
* was a
Rendel gunboat Rendel is a surname, and may refer to
*Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1828–1918), English civil engineer
*Alexander Meadows Rendel (Sandy Rendel) (1910–1991) SOE agent
*David Rendel (1949–2016), British politician
* Emma Rendel (born 1976), S ...
. She was launched in 1878, captured by the Germans in 1940, returned to Norway in 1945 and scrapped shortly thereafter.
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HNoMS ''Brage'' (N49) was the ex-American USS ''Triumph'' (AM-323). She was launched on 25 February 1943, transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy on 27 January 1961, and scrapped in 1978.
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Royal Norwegian Navy ship names