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

From: Erik Hammerstad (egeha.is.all.you.need_at_start.no)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:26:11 +0200

David B. wrote:
> Erik Hammerstad wrote in message <2msmdoFr2lgcU1@uni-berlin.de>...
>
>>Olin and Seaver have recently presented their views on the map
>>at a conference in Copenhagen. In Danish at
>>http://www.kb.dk/kb/dept/nbo/kob/nyhedsbrev/#03
>>it is stated that Olin did not claim that her results proved the
>>map to authentic.
>
>
> Thanks for that reference Erik. Basically, Olin has not shifted her
> position an inch- the parchment is from the 1400s, the ink could be
> medieval, but of course as a good scientist she can't say that proves the
> map to be old. It seems she still won't address the many indications that
> the ink cannot have been made in the way she has been suggesting since the
> 1970s. Still, as the last word on the excellent
> http://webexhibits.org/vinland/ site is currently given to her opponents,
> with luck she will gradually be marginalised (not that I'm any happier with
> Seaver's similarly dogmatic theory about Fr. Fischer...)
>
>
>>The conference program is found here http://www.dpc.dk/DYNAMICS/
>>And Inger/Eric Stevens/Seppo should take note of the following
>>program entry: PUBLIC LECTURE BY DR. BIRGITTA WALLACE
>
>
> :-) (but isn't that a different conference?)

The Vinland Map was a session at the "Dynamics of Northern
Societies" conference, see program end of day 4.

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