Which navigational outcome occurred more frequently for Viking longships sailing west from Norway during winter storms?

💡 Explanation

Increased westward error resulted from cumulative dead reckoning errors because reduced visibility prevented accurate celestial navigation via the sunstone and stars, therefore errors compounded rather than being corrected by celestial sightings as possible in summer.

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