"The inscription keeps mentioning a ship — a flying ship. … Now if the ship had been the ordinary pattern of Egyptian ship, I shouldn't have thought twice about it. The ship of Osiris — that's one of their chief gods, or the Sunboat of Ra — that's another god — well you might expect that. But it isn't. It's something quite different. It's the kind of ship you find a couple of thousand years later in a very different kind of land. A dragon-ship, complete with square sails and gilt boar's head at the prow."
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Archeologist John Nickalls, about strange accounts in the hieroglyphic inscriptions he has found, in Ch. 9 : The Valley of Kings
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The Ship that Flew
The Ship that Flew (1939) is an acclaimed children's fantasy novel by Hilda Lewis, which tells of some of the journeys of four children across the world and through ages of time in a magic ship, sold to the eldest of them by Odin in disguise, which they come to discover had belonged to the Norse god Frey, and was called Skidbladnir.
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