Is there any evidence in the record as to whether or not Scandinavian raiders, commonly lumped together as Vikings, named their boats?

There’s an interesting article on Old Norse ship names here Ships didn’t have female names especially but were named after saints, birds, individuals or were simply given poetic names that sounded nice.

Yeah, but they constantly had issues identifying exactly which ship they were talking about.
Because they were all named “Rape” and “Pillage”.

Maybe the feminine thing comes from the idea that this mess of wood will keep you alive, with everything it has. Because when you name it something like the “Edmund Fitzgerald,” well…boys It’s been good to know ya.

Idolization of females goes back to prehistoric days. But none of that really answers the question.

“And did they refer to them in the feminine form as we presently do in the western world?”

We do? My father and grandfather were both watermen. Grandfather served in the Navy on a ship named the ‘William C. Cole’. Dad served in a commercial fleet on several ships of varying names, both masculine and feminine.

That it true @Darth_Algar My father spent a couple of years on a ship that was named the :Carl Schmedeman but not once did he, or any of several other seamen that I have known, ever referred to a ship as “He”, when spoken of it was always in the feminine regardless of the ships name.

It is well known that Bismarck was all woman.