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A graduate student in Sweden has been learning about Vikings through an unusual method: He’s done it by sailing like one.
Greer Jarrett has identified four possible small ports, or “havens,” used by Vikings along the Norwegian coast.
Swedish archaeologist Greer Jarrett has embarked on a three-year, 3,100-mile expedition in a Viking boat replica, uncovering ...
Vikings likely sailed farther offshore, navigating by stories and island harbors. Jarrett’s voyages show the boats’ stability ...
Vikings did not use maps, sextants, or other devices to navigate ... Greer Jarrett of Lund University and his team have sailed over 5,000 kilometers along Viking trade routes using an open, ...
Jarrett and his team sailed a replica of a Viking Age open, square-rigged clinker boat, covering over 5,000 kilometers along traditional Viking trade routes, including a journey from Trondheim up ...
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Most of what scholars know about Viking maritime networks, however, has to do with their start and end points. After all, they could have taken any number of routes ... of the trade that took ...