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Wolfgang -

You know, not everything may get written down. For instance in reading
the Eirik Saga and Greenlander Saga, I was struck by the lack of any
mention of icebergs.

I understand that there was a warm period during the years the Norse
voyaged to and settled in Greenland and Newfoundland.  Still...

I also should add that these two are the only sagas I've read - the
Penguin edition with an introduction longer than the two sagas
combined. Icebergs may appear in others. I'd be interested to know.

-Hewitt

On 6/7/09, Wolfgang K�berer  wrote:
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>  The Viking "sun compass" and their "sun stone" are 2 more myths that seem to
>  be able to live forever.
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>  The Viking sun compass and especially the artifact found by Vebaek in
>  Greenland, which Soren Thirslund claims as proof for the use of such an
>  instrument in Viking navigation have been the subject of a prolonged
>  discussion in the "Discovery list" ten years ago. It showed that the
>  properties which Soren Thirslund claimed for the alleged "sun compass" just
>  did not sqaure with the physical properties of the object itself. You should
>  be able to find a compilation of the discussion on the net looking for "sun
>  ray disk".
>
>  The "sun compass" and the "sun stone" have also been dealt with extensively
>  by Uwe Schnall in his "Navigation der Wikinger" (1975), in my opinion still
>  the best treatment of the subject because he does not phantasize about what
>  the vikings may have had and to what use strange objects may have been put
>  by them but analyzes in detail the written documents, the sagas. And his
>  conclusion may be disappointing, but it is convincing if you care to read
>  his book: there is no indication that any of these "instruments" were ever
>  used by the vikings at sea.
>
>  But we've been through this before: see [NavList 3336]
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>  Wolfgang
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