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what if I told you Vikings sailed
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treacherous seas guided by a crystal
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that could find the sun even in total
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darkness picture this a Viking long ship
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its crew cloaked in furs and iron
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battling a relentless storm no compass
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no stars yet in the captain's hand a
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translucent stone legend calls it the
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ancient sagas whispered that this
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mysterious crystal revealed the sun's
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hidden position slicing through clouds
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precision modern scientists now believe
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this artifact could have been Iceland
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spar a rare calite that bends light and
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image by carefully rotating the stone
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Vikings could pinpoint the sun's
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direction even on the darkest stormiest
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days imagine the power mastering
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navigation when others were hopelessly
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lost conquering the vast North Atlantic
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with nothing but their wits and a
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glimmering stone was it magic or science
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far ahead of its time the truth blurs
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the line between myth and reality
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leaving us to wonder what other secrets
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did the ancients hold hidden in plain
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sight if you like what you have seen so
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far don't forget to like follow and