 |
| 2014: Tourism - Oslo Viking Museum (Design - Kristin Granli) |
 |
| 1990: Viking Life (Design - Svenolov Ehren) |
 |
| 2002: Viking Voyages of the Atlantic (Design - Martin Morck) |
and navigating. Our Viking is using a sunboard. In the middle of the day the ship's course was corrected by measuring the height of the sun. If the angle of the sun had got bigger the ship had traveled too far south, less and it was sailing too far north. Thank goodness for GPS.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - At Sea - set sail at See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
I love the first one. The second looks rather precarious! And, I am always in awe of those ancient navigational skills.
Going across the North Sea or the Atlantic in a open boat - not for me, But great stamps.
Viking sails are quite impressive!
Post a Comment