Michael Daly wrote:


On 1-May-2005, gregg wrote:

The Arabs did (Kamal), but the Vikings hadn't seen that.

The Vikings had made it at least as far as Constantinople.
I would have guessed they had seen the kamal.

Mike


Well yes but that was late in the "Viking Age" as I recall.

But when they made their voyages West, it was without anythign but a Sun
Compass.

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