Another alluring buyout target is hotel REIT Sunstone, trading at a 9% discount to NAV.
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As a private company, Sunstone could make renovations without worrying about a stock hit.
There is only a sketchy reference in the old Viking legends to the sunstone.
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Dr Ropars suspects it was being used as a sunstone because the magnetic compasses of the day were thrown out of kilter by iron cannon.
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However, a number of academics treat the sunstone theory with scepticism.
The true nature of the sunstone will probably not be settled until and unless one turns up in either a sunken Viking vessel or a ship burial.
It might sound like something straight out of a Harry Potter movie, but a mysterious piece of rock salvaged from a 400-year-old wreck might turn out to be a legendary Viking "Sunstone" -- an ancient solar compass.
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