Which risk to accurate navigation sharply increased when a knotted rope's density changed on a Viking longship?

💡 Explanation

Inaccuracies in distance measuring rose due to density variations creating knot spacing changes when using a sounding rope (line with knots at intervals). Therefore, dead reckoning calculations suffered extensively, rather than immediate hull failure, because the rope's density affected knot spacing.

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