This suggests that the spread of Viking-inspired solar compass technology in the region is a possibility. The medieval discs ...

No concrete evidence of the stones has been found, but scientists have shown that it could have been a viable way of navigating. One 2018 study that conducted computer simulations of Viking voyages ...

Viking sunstone Ancient tales of Norse mariners using mysterious sunstones to navigate the ocean when clouds ... Even in the era of the compass, crews might have kept such stone on hand as a ...

There is no reference to such stones being used by Elizabethan seamen but the Icelandic sagas describe how the Viking king, Olaf, during snowy weather, asked a vassal, Sigur, to point to where the ...

The team estimated that the twilight compass would have functioned for as long as 50 minutes after sunset around the spring equinox, when the Vikings are thought to have used this compass based on ...

GUIDING LIGHT. No solar stone has ever been found. And only one etched timber fragment has been identified as being potentially part of a solar compass.

The stone was discovered less than 3 feet (1 meter) from a pair of navigation dividers, ... Images: Viking Twilight Compass Helps Navigate North Atlantic. Latest in News.

LONDON – A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone, the fabled crystal believed by some to have helped Vikings and other medieval seafarers navigate the… ...

Magical Viking stone may be real. A Viking legend which tells of a glowing "sunstone" that, when held up to the sky, disclosed the position of the Sun on a cloudy day may have some basis in truth ...