How the Vikings Navigated Their Ships

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The viking age could not have been possible without the longship. Propelled by oar and sail, it was fast, sturdy and flexible. Ofcourse, I've already discussed the longship's construction in a previous video, and what it was like being aboard one. In this video we'll be discussing an aspect as important as the construction: and that is just how the Vikings were able to navigate the Baltic Coasts, the rivers of Russia, and the frigid waters of the North Sea.
Sources
Ship and Society: Maritime Ideology in Late Iron Age Sweden - Gunilla Larsson
The Vikings - Osprey Publishing
The Viking Longship - Osprey Publishing
Den Långa Medeltiden - Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist
www.medieval.eu/viking-bread-...
www.historyonthenet.com/vikin...
sciencenordic.com/denmark-his...
Image Sources
By Jason Riedy - originally posted to Flickr as Dripping whey from the drying cheese, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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[@stevoplex]

A theory that helps explain the Viking's fearlessness in boldly sailing out into uncharted ocean has to do with their worldview. Sailors from Southern Europe were aware that the Earth was round, but had no idea how vast the ocean was. Their fear was that there would be no land before they ran out of food and water before reaching the point of no return, meaning they wouldn't have been able to sail back home before dyiing. Vikings, on the other hand, thought the Earth was a disk bounded by land along its circumference and the Atlantic Ocean dominated the center. That way, regardless of which direction they sailed, they would always reach land soon enough. That's very true especially in the North Atlantic, where you always find land in a week or less in any direction except for a narrow wedge going directly southwest..

[@OmmerSyssel]

There is no single evidence of your nonsense!
Why should thousands of people living along the coast, always being out and observing what ever happened around them ignore how an arriving boat grew larger and larger upon landing?
Of course Vikings knew the earth was round.

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[@andrewlerdard-dickson5201]

I carved myself one of these Viking sundial Compassses....using the Gokstad tiller arm's head for the bottom base of compass handle.
The belief that the Sun would generally stay in the same fixed location for 7 day's before, it would move location for course....hence the 36 notches on the compass wheel.
36 Nautical degrees
It was an excellent idea for a compass, but totally rendered useless a night time. !
Then navigation by the stars throughout the night.....Once morning again you would go back to the Sun compass to get back on your course.
I do believe that such fragments of this device was found in either "Island or Grunland".

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Mainly they are rivers of Ukraine. Rus and russia have realy not a lot in comen. the last ones are more of a Mongol tribe.

[@Irina_89user-zl7ve2wp2e]

You don't know the history of these lands at all. Read historians from antiquity to the 19th century. The term "Ukraine" as a country did not exist at all, but Rus' has been mentioned since the 8th century.

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@@Irina_89user-zl7ve2wp2e Rus was mentioned. But Rus does not equal russia. Rus is Kieven Rus

[@Irina_89user-zl7ve2wp2e]

@@danielbraverman3349Kieven Rus it is a term coined by 19th century historians. There was no such name in the Viking Age, it was just Rus. And its first capital was in Ladoga.

[@Irina_89user-zl7ve2wp2e]

@@danielbraverman3349 Kieven Rus is a term coined by 19th century historians. There was no such name in the Viking Age, it was just Rus. And its first capital was in Ladoga.

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There was no russia in the Viking age. And majority of vikings routes went through Ukraine and Belarus, NOT russia.

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