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originally posted by: rickymouse
The Vikings, along with other cultures in the world, did have maps and also did travel all over that ocean.
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: noeltrotsky
They all had maps. The vikings also had magnetic things they used as compasses. What good would a compass be without a map?
I don't think this small thing is a map though. It would probably have been etched in wood or stone.
originally posted by: daaskapital
Contrary to popular belief, many ancient societies postulated the theory of a spherical Earth. The theory was first floated in Ancient Greece, and other societies followed suit.
I'm not exactly sure what the vikings believed, but being a seafaring people, it is possible that they knew more than the average man on navigation and geography...
originally posted by: rickymouse
The Vikings, along with other cultures in the world, did have maps and also did travel all over that ocean. It doesn't seem that we have found many maps of the other ocean for some reason
originally posted by: rickymouse
They all had maps. The vikings also had magnetic things they used as compasses. What good would a compass be without a map?
I don't think this small thing is a map though. It would probably have been etched in wood or stone.
originally posted by: MerkabaMeditation
a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
What about the required map projection maths, would not this mean they had a higher level of maths and knew that the earth was a globe?
-MM
originally posted by: Floke
Why do we still call them Vikings? The only people in human history,, that I know of, who has been called Vikings, is a football team from Minnesota. They were called the Norse. Today we are called Scandinavians. Viking was something a few Norse did, like some people were pirates, but calling the entire people Vikings is as wrong as calling the Christian population at the time for Crusaders or calling every people from Spain a Conquistadore.
The marking could very possible be a coincidence that happens to resemble a map. But stranger things have been found so why not? We know the Norse went long way from home and was very good at navigating so it is not impossible some of them made a rather accurate map.
This summer I was at the old Norse city of Birka. There is nothing left to see of the city but some stone walls. However, the guide was a very entertaining archeologist who talked alot about common misperceptions regarding the old Norse. Very interesting and insightfull.
originally posted by: MerkabaMeditation
A japanese schoolteacher ...