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Vegvísir is a compound word formed from the two Icelandic words, vegur and vísir. Vegur means 'way, road, path' (lit. ' way '), and vísir, inflection form of vísa, 'to show, to let know, to guide' (lit.
File:Vegvisir.gif licensed with PD-self 2007-04-11T07:16:46Z Steinninn 150x150 (2452 Bytes) Summary Vegvísir, or Compass, an Viking magic sign to lead the way in bad weather. Uploaded with derivativeFX
This book was based on an earlier one, The Viking Compass, by him and C.I. Veback (1990) (later translated into English: The Viking Compass, guided Norsemen first to America). The books were based on a theory advanced by Carl V. Solver and Curt Roslund that the wooden thing was a sundial for navigation.
Icelandic name Manuscript description Image Að unni “To get a girl”, this magical stave is used by a man in love to gain the affections of the object of his desires.
Old Norse text [5] Bellows translation [6] "Inn fráni ormr, þú gerðir fræs mikla ok galzt harðan hug; heift at meiri verðr hölða sonum, at þann hjalm hafi." "Glittering worm, thy hissing was great,
In the History Channel's television series Vikings, a sun compass very similar in appearance to the Uunartoq disc was a significant plot device in the first season, as it allowed the Norsemen to maintain a consistent latitude while sailing west on the open ocean to raid Britain, though it was shown floating in water rather than hand-held as ...
Viking Sundial. During an excavation of a Viking Age farm in southern Greenland part of a circular disk with carvings was recovered. The discovery of the so-called Viking Sundial suggested a hypothesis that it was used as a compass. Archaeologists found a piece of stone and a fragment of wooden disk both featuring straight and hyperbolic carvings.
A tattoo on the right arm of a Scythian chieftain whose mummy was discovered at Pazyryk, Russia. The tattoo was made between about 200 and 400 BCE. Tattooed mummies dating to c. 500 BCE were extracted from burial mounds on the Ukok plateau during the 1990s. Their tattooing involved animal designs carried out in a curvilinear style.