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Hi

Im part of the Crew of the 30 m longship "Havhingsten af Glendalough". Next year we sail it from Denmark ti Ireland. On our weppage you can se an english program about the project: http://havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=446

Pippin

Hey Pippen, would you like to know how the ancient Thulelanders, from circa 2000 B.C., may have accurately navigated the oceans?

Thulelanders?

Lived on the land now-submerged off northeast U.K.

oh, next to Atlantis or Numenor?

Pippin

Probably the same as Atland, and Avalon on the other side of the U.K, where is supposed Numenor?

Numenor could be the now-submerged ruins of Helgoland, just north of Bremerhaven.

Pippen-Look absolutely fascinating-Thanks so much for sharing!

Pippin wrote:Hi

Im part of the Crew of the 30 m longship "Havhingsten af Glendalough". Next year we sail it from Denmark ti Ireland. On our weppage you can se an english program about the project: http://havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=446

Pippin

Pippin - this is quite an honor. Congratulations. Keep us posted in the future as to how it went.

I am impressed, and would like to hear more!

I understand those are cold and treacherous waters!

fair winds and calm water! i'll be following your posts with much interest - keep us up to date.

btw. there's another pretty cool voyage out there. a guy - i think his name was tim severin - built a seagoing irish curragh (skin-on-frame sailing/rowing boat) and sailed from ireland to massachussetts. he wrote a book about it (which of course is in the half of my library up north) called something like the brendan voyage or the voyage of the brendan. anyway, one of the irish monk legends is that a monk called brendan voyaged to america and back waay before columbus. good read, as the boat was built to historical specifications using historical materials, and was sailed/rowed the same. so it gives us a pretty good idea of the voyaging capabilities of what to most of us would be a terrifyingly small and insubstantial craft.

again, good sailing.

john

john wrote:...there's another pretty cool voyage out there. a guy - i think his name was tim severin - built a seagoing irish curragh (skin-on-frame sailing/rowing boat) and sailed from ireland to massachussetts.

Not quite-it took 2 seasons (IIRC) to get to Newfoundland.

Pippen, on a wall of the oldest portion of Rosslyn Chapel is a picture of a grid of longitudes and latitudes which reflects accurate east-west proportions (longitude) vis-a-vis the given latitudes described in the article "Scribbles in the Stonework of Rosslyn" at http://www.heritage.scotsman.com, click on Myths and Mysteries, then click on the article.

Those grid proportions were accurately measured with the Celtic Cross, showing true north and true longitudes, so you still don't want to see the methodology of it?

Yo, Pippin...wear long underwear and carry a flask of brandy, my friend.

Hooray, pippin! I wish I could go with you.
That video is very nice.