Word: thorkild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...navigating by stars at night and by sun during the day. No matter what the weather, according to ancient Scandinavian sagas, the sun could al ways be located with the aid of magical "sun stones." Summarizing sunstone lore in a recent article in the archaeology magazine Skalk, Danish Archaeologist Thorkild Ramskou lamented that none of the sagas clearly describe the sun stone. "But there seems to be a possibility," he wrote, "that it was an instrument which in clouded weather could show where...
...Thorkild Jacobsen, a scholar of the languages and peoples of ancient Mesopotamia, has joined the Faculty as professor of Assyriology. He came to Harvard as visiting professor this year from the University of Chicago...