Re: Anchoring harbor in Norse Greenland

From: Erik Hammerstad (egeha.is.all.you.need_at_start.no)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 20:17:17 +0200

Doug Weller wrote:

> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 01:03:09 +0200, Erik Hammerstad wrote:
>
>
>>David B. wrote:
>>
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>>>Inger E Johansson wrote in message
>>><4INQc.100178$dP1.346566@newsc.telia.net>...
>>>
>>>
>>>>What I can't understand is that so many have missed that Ivar
>>>>Bardson in his Det Gamle Grønlands Beskrivelse wrote:
>>>>"..... och ther ved ligger en haffn som heder Sand, almindeligh
>>>>haffn for Normend och kiøbmennd"
>>>>source Det Gamle Grønlands Beskrivelse, edited by Finnur
>>>>Jonsson København 1930 line 2-5 page 19
>>>
>>>>quick translation: "... and there is a harbor called Sand,
>>>>habitued by Norse and merchandisers"
>
>
>
> What I can't understand is why Inger doesn't know that this has not been
> ignored. Besides the urls below, which make it clear that that is is well
> known, there is the article:
> ARCHAEOLOGICAL GLOBALIZATION: The First Practitioners
> Randsborg K.
> Acta Archaeologica, 1 December 2001, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 1-53(53)
> Blackwell Publishing
<snip>
>>And the Norse harbour, which is actually known as Sandhavn, has
>>been and is under investigation, for example see
>>http://www.geus.dk/publications/review-greenland-00/gsb189p65-69.pdf
>>and http://www.sila.dk/Projects/Norse_VIIa.html

Haven't you noticed yet that Inger seems to be unaware of
_everything_ that is more recent than from her school days.

As an example, with her "scholarly" interest in the Norse in
Greenland and America, why did she not take the opportunity to
participate in the recent conference in Copenhagen on Arctic and
North Atlantic archaeology? Another exmple, while one can
understand that she was not invited to this workshop
http://www.sila.dk/Events/Workshops/Longhouse.html, had she been
following what's been going on, she wouldn't have plastered these
newsgroups with endless postings on Norse longhouses in the
Canadian Arctic.

Its rather useless to speculate why she is like this, better to
just accept it and recognize that while she can sometime provide
new information, its no use discussing with her.

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