With the exception of very imperfect representations carved on rocks and runic stones, there are no images left in the countries of Scandinavia of these ships of the olden time. But the celebrated tapestry at Bayeux, in Normandy, on which the conquest of England by the Normans is depicted, is a contemporary evidence of the appearance of the Normanic ships; and the accompanying woodcut taken from it, representing probably the ship in which William the Conqueror himself sailed, will clearly prove how splendid they really must have been. Both this and the rest of the Norman ships in the tapestry perfectly agree with the contemporary Danish and Norwegian ships, just as we know them from the Sagas, even to the shields hung out along the bulwarks. This, however, is nothing more than what one might naturally expect, since the Normans and Danes, on the conquest of Normandy, must have brought such ships with them, as well as that art of ship-building which they afterwards carried to greater perfection. For this, however, they found no models in the wretched vessels of the Franks and Bretons. But their steady connection with the Scandinavian fatherlands, at all events through the Danes and Norwegians in England, communicated to them those improvements in the form and arrangement of ships which the very extensive ship-building of the Northmen, and their long and uninterrupted voyages to Iceland and Greenland, must gradually have produced. That influence on maritime affairs, which, on the whole, was exercised by the Scandinavian settlers in Normandy, showed itself also in the circumstance that Scandinavian names of ships, together with other maritime terms, passed into the Romance language; as, for instance, _flotte_ (_Dan._, Flaade; _Eng._, fleet), _verec_ (_Dan._, Vrag; _Eng._, wreck), _bord_ (_Dan._, Skibsborde, Rand; _Eng._, ship-board), _windas_ (_Dan._, Vinde, Spil; _Eng._, windlass) _mast_ (_Dan._, Mast; _Eng._, mast), _sigler_ (_Dan._, Seile; _Eng._, sails), _esturman_ (_Dan._, Styrmand; _Eng._, steersman), _eschiper_ (_Old Northern_, skipa; _Eng._, equip), from which are derived the now commonly used French words, _équiper_, _équipage_, (and with us Danes likewise, eqvipere, Eqvipage-mester; _Eng._, master of ordnance.)