Re: Kirsten Seaver's Vinland Map book- first thoughts

From: Seppo Renfors (Renfors_at_not.com.au)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:59:15 GMT

"David B." wrote:
>
> Kirsten Seaver's new book "Maps, Myths, and Men" (ISBN 0-8047-4963-9) is
> extremely informative. The title, however, gives a clue that the
> information is by no means restricted to the subject indicated in her
> subtitle: "The Story of the Vínland Map". Leaving aside the hundred pages
> of notes, bibliography and index, it is probable that a good couple of
> hundred pages are devoted to various background issues, including a great
> deal about known early maps of the North Atlantic area, a 60-page chapter
> on the Norse "in and near North America"- mercifully dismissing items like
> the Kensington Runestone in a couple of pages- and a 77-page final chapter
> interweaving information about the construction of the Vinland Map with the
> biography of Father Josef Fischer S.J. ("Dating all the way back to 1440,
> the only person in the world who could have made the Vinland Map").

Thank you for that - now we know the book is worthless from the POV of
the Vinland map. That bogus claim of Josef Fischer has been shot down
long ago. The book may have some secondary value for other issues. Any
"dismissing of the KRS" shows a lack of scientific rigour her part
and cannot be accepted as other than echoing the establishment dogma
she relies on for her daily bread!

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