Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
In the 10th century, Vikings sailed from Norway to Greenland, but the ancient accounts of the voyage don’t give us much technical information about how they found their way. That’s a long trip if you don’t have navigational aids.
Navigation, however, was no easy task.
There was no map or chart to rely on, no sextant for celestial navigation, and no magnetic compass to help with dead reckoning. (That was how Columbus did it 500 years later.) The Norse…
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