Viking Sunstone from the Alderney (pictured)

"In conjunction with a shadow board, you could tell which way was north. The Sunstone would be a truly powerful device in a time before magnetic compasses. Doubly valuable to a nation of seafaring warriors sailing vast distances in the often cloud covered North Sea.

Modern Science dismissed such as mere legends, of course. Right up until they discovered one in the shipwreck of the Alderney, an Elizabethian warship that sank in 1592. Although she sailed well beyond the times of the Vikings she did sail in the time before all the vagrancies of magnetic navigation were mastered. The Sunstone was found with the Navigation equipment, & is believed to have been used to correct or back up the magnetic navigation devices.

Although the sands & chemical reactions had clouded the Sunstone, they were able to determine that it was a piece of Icelandic Spar. One of the optical properties of Icelandic Spar is it actually doubles the objects passing through it." (ibid)

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Viking Sunstone from the Alderney (pictured)

"In conjunction with a shadow board, you could tell which way was north. The Sunstone would be a truly powerful device in a time before magnetic compasses. Doubly valuable to a nation of seafaring warriors sailing vast distances in the often cloud covered North Sea.

Modern Science dismissed such as mere legends, of course. Right up until they discovered one in the shipwreck of the Alderney, an Elizabethian warship that sank in 1592. Although she sailed well beyond the times of the Vikings she did sail in the time before all the vagrancies of magnetic navigation were mastered. The Sunstone was found with the Navigation equipment, & is believed to have been used to correct or back up the magnetic navigation devices.

Although the sands & chemical reactions had clouded the Sunstone, they were able to determine that it was a piece of Icelandic Spar. One of the optical properties of Icelandic Spar is it actually doubles the objects passing through it." (ibid)

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