Dan Snow
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first heard Dec 2024
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The greatest warrior of the age.
Due west they sailed, two hundred miles or so to the Shetlands.
Aimed just south of the setting sun at that time of year.
Clouds above the Shetlands be visible for sixty or so miles away.
So
To us what seems like a terrifying feat of navigation with no GPS was actually pretty standard, I think.
Maybe thirty six hours or so.
At sea with a fair, steady breeze.
At night you keep the North Star, you keep Polaris right athwart your beam, and you're going in the right direction.
From Shetland, straight down south to Orkney, fifty miles or so, hardly out of sight of land, really.
Orkney was a Viking stronghold, it was a Norwegian possession.
And it was ruled over oddly in this period by well, I had two elves, they were brothers.
They seemed to rub along pretty peacefully.
Erland and Paul, oddly.
They and their men were keen enough and they joined the expedition and headed south.
Next, Aldrada visited the east coast of Scotland to try and convince the King of Scots to join.
He balked.
He did not want to.
Maybe the memories of terrible defeats at the hands of English still loomed.
He would sit this one out and try and make the most of the aftermath.
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