[Fedora]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fedora! Will ping from home.

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sunstones/index

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks again Fedora. And just once I'd like to enter a topic where everyone has actually read the excerpt, or better yet the entire article, before running off at the keys with useless, irrelevant, boilerplate (BCE vs BC), or just plain ignorant remarks.

• Crystals 'helped Viking sailors' (For Viking fans....and others, of course).
• How Vikings May Have Navigated On Cloudy Days (More)
• Did Vikings navigate by polarized light?
• Icelandic rocks could have steered Vikings
• Researchers: We may have found a fabled sunstone (Update)
• Researchers suggest Vikings used crystals with sun compass to steer at night
• Incised stone sun discs found during Danish island excavations

Some sidebars you may find interesting:

• Letter From Newfoundland: Homing In On The Red Paint People
• Pioneers In Northern Circumpolar Areas
• Thinking of vacationing in Newfoundland/Labrador? Don't Miss This Scenic Village.
• Scientists illuminate the ancient history of circumarctic peoples
• Native Americans and Northern Europeans Paleolithic Cousins