The researchers, lead by Guy Ropars of the University of Rennes in France, build their own Viking sunstone compass from a calcite crystal. The two beams of light can be seen on the reflective ...

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Researchers, lead by Guy Ropars of the University of Rennes in France, built their own Viking sunstone compass from a calcite crystal. The two beams of light can be seen on the reflective surface ...

A common Iceland spar (a translucent crystal formation of calcite) can behave like the mythical sunstone by depolarizing the light from the sun to reveal its location, even if hidden by clouds or ...

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By rotating the crystal against the human eye until the darkness of the two shadows were equal, the sun's position can pinpointed with remarkable accuracy, according to the researchers.

Researchers have now discovered the crystal that would have made such a magical apparatus possible. The Vikings could have used a common calcite crystal, called an Icelandic spar, to find the sun ...

A crystal found in a shipwreck could be similar to a sunstone - a navigational aid said to have been used by Viking mariners, scientists believe.

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