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How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days
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Vikings navigated the oceans with sundials aboard their Norse ships. But on an overcast day, sundials would have been useless. Many researchers have suggested that on the foggy days, Vikings looked toward the sky through rock crystals called sunstones to give them direction. Source: Live Science >>> How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days  ........................ The Vikings discover North America: 9 October 1002 Last edited by Heimdallr; Sunday, March 4th, 2007 at 18:19. 
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
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Re: How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days
Interesting theory, but still speculative as no such device has been found by archaeologists.
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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