Did vikings invent anything

Answer 1

Vikings are generally not thought of as technological innovators, just warriors and traders. The exact history of the self developed technologies and those that they borrowed from places they visited and improvements they observed are difficult to separate. They, however, are thought to have improved and made made several advances that aided them in their lives. Among these were:

• improved the design of seagoing boats so they could travel further and faster than their competitors
• They used magnetite (naturally magnetic iron ore) as a compass
• Used Icelandic Feldspar as a polarizing lense to determine the sun's position on overcast days to aid navigation
• Developed charts of dirction and distance for ocean voyages that are almost as good as today's charts
• Used card looms to make cloth for clothing
• Invented the vapidity loom . This was a warp-weighted loom was a vertical loom made up of a set of upright wooden beams and an upper beam that held the woven cloth.
• Developed weapons such as the sax and Danish ax for battle on board ships
• They were competent blacksmiths and developed weapons and aror suitable for their needs.
• Developed fighting methods for sea battles to allow the ships to be transformed into floating battlefields
• They may have invented, or at least were early adopters of, the comb
• There is some evidence they they may have made and used telescopes