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Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...
Learn how Vikings traveled the seas by way of trade routes — and how one researcher found out where they stopped to rest on ...
Since 2022, Jarrett and his intrepid crews have navigated multiple voyages aboard an open, square-rigged clinker boat built ...
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can ...
Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate. They likely remembered their routes with coastal landmarks that were linked to myths... | Earth And The Environment ...
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett spent three years piloting a small sailboat along the coast of Norway to understand Viking trade ...
To trace forgotten Viking trade routes, an experimental archaeologist spent three years braving frozen Norwegian waters.
Archaeologist Greer Jarrett from Lund University in Sweden has spent three years retracing the voyages of Vikings, uncovering ...
An archaeologist sailing fjords on a Viking boat uncovers lost sea routes and hidden harbors once used by Norse sailors.
Despite the boat’s lack of a deep keel, it proved stable even in rough waters. Jarrett noted that sailing near land—through ...
We see this in Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, but also in Viking Age Scandinavia. However, the handshake as practised within our own cultural sphere today, was introduced much later, possibly by ...