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Some wrong ideas never die, they're zombie ideas that may be refuted time after time and still pop up again. The Viking sun compass has been discussed on the list before - like many other useful and many other silly proposals.

In that earlier discussion I referred to a paper compiled by James Enterline called "Sun Ray Disk White Paper". Unfortunately it seems to have disappeared from the net. I have a copy if anyone cares to have it. The result of the
discussion seems to be that the presumptions about the lines on the disk
just don't fit the facts (the lines, that is).

But be assured: it will come up again. In general I would stick with what Geoffrey then said about the "sun stone": "I would put very little
credence at all in this as an instrument of navigation."

Wolfgang
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