How was the Norse Navigator able to shape his course across the
North Atlantic long before the invention of the magnetic compass?
This book tells the story of the Viking Sun Compass and how it
allowed the Vikings to sail across the Atlantic. In 1948, the
Danish archaeologist C.L. Vebaek found the remains of a small
wooden disc at the Viking Age site of Uunartoq in Greenland. Since
then the Master mariners Carl V. Sver and Sen Thirslund have
interpreted this find as a navigational instrument. This book is
the essence of more than forty years of archaeological studies,
discussions and practical sea-going experiments. The author gives a
full account of the history of the find and demonstrates
convincingly how Viking Age Navigators could make use of this and
other simple devices in order to find their way across the vastness
of the Northern Atlantic.
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