Mythology Njord: The Norse God of the Sea and Seafaring
Njord was the god every Viking sailor actually needed: father of Freyr and Freyja, a hostage from the war between gods, and husband in mythology's most mismatched marriage.
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Seafaring
3 articles in the Nordweg archive deal with Seafaring. Collected here so you can follow the thread instead of searching for it.
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Mythology 
Daily Life & Culture How Did the Vikings Navigate? Sunstone and Stars
No compass, no map, thousands of miles of open Atlantic: how Vikings navigated by sun, sunstone, stars, and wave patterns - sagas, finds, and physics.
Daily Life & Culture The Longship: How a Boat-Building Idea Changed the World
The Viking longship was the Norsemen's defining technology. Why it mastered rivers, seas, and the open ocean alike-and reshaped an entire age.
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