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How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days
Submitted by Melinda Secor on Sat, 2007-03-03 17:00
"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 the on foggy days, Vikings looked toward the sky through rock crystals called sunstones to give them direction."
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