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Re: Losing Trebizond
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2023 Mar 11, 00:20 -0800
From: Wolfgang Köberer
Date: 2023 Mar 11, 00:20 -0800
This reminds me of „hafvilla“, the old Norse term for being lost at sea. It frequently appears in the Viking Sagas and is a strong argument against the stories of Viking instruments like the “Sun Stone”, as it only disappears from the written documents when the compass was introduced in the North. See Marcus, G.J., »Hafvilla« A Note on Norse Navigation, in: Speculum, Vol. 30 (1955), 601 – 605.
Wolfgang Köberer
