If you read up on the ancient sagas of the Vikings, you'll find all manner of supernatural phenomenon. Seriously, these stories feature people going toe-to-toe with giants and trolls on a regular basis. But there's one enchanted item in those myths that has left a lot of anthropologists scratching their heads. "Sunstones" were said to guide a sailor from one fjord to another, and new discoveries are making it seem more and more probable that they actually existed.
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Mythical Viking Sunstone Is Real
Written by
Reuben Westmaas
May 2, 2018
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