Re: KRS - Possible news to come

From: Steve Marcus (smarcus_spamout__at_cox.net)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:30:39 -0400

"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> wrote in message
news:6gvbk0l75kavctsjm7q0ug9a68o0s0hii6@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:00:25 GMT, "Martin Reboul"
> <martin.reboul@SPAMFUKvirgin.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"I E Johansson" <ingerxjohanssonx@telia.com> wrote in message
> >news:MW41d.3033$d5.23509@newsb.telia.net...
> >>
> >> "Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> skrev i meddelandet
> >> news:doa9k0l3619o8r8tarfgjc7mslh3104355@4ax.com...
> >> > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:53:50 GMT, Philip Deitiker
> >> > <Donevenask@worlnet.att.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> says in
> >> > >news:h488k0h2pf1v3f62jckq6kiqpdpju2b3l8@4ax.com:
> >> > >
> >> > >> I didn't realise that Erik was relying on a television
> >> > >> program, unless they quoted somebody authoritative.
> >> > >
> >> > >Actually it wasn't Erik who brought it up, he was defending what
> >> > >the television program said because SOMEONE here, who has
> >> > >a history of misquoting sources, misquoted it, leading to
> >> > >confusion.
> >> >
> >> > You could be correct. But it was Erik's article I responded to.
> >> > >
> >> > >> Have a look at
> >> > >> http://www.historiska.se/download/HN_kensington.pdf Where
> >> > >> they variously say:
> >> > >>
> >> > >> "Based on comparison with the still actively oxidizing
> >> > >> pyrite
> >> > >> crystals within the AVM Stone inscription carved in
> >> > >> 1985, the completely oxidized pyrite pits observed in
> >> > >> the original Kensington Rune Stone inscription took
> >> > >> longer than 18 1/2 years of weathering to develop. The
> >> > >> conclusion is that the Kensington rune stone
> >> > >> inscription was carved before 1870"
> >> > >
> >> > >I think so.
> >> > >
> >> > >> "The tombstone death dates raged from 1796 to 1865. This
> >> > >> gave a range of 138 to 203 years that the slate
> >> > >> tombstones were exposed to roughly similar weather
> >> > >> conditions as the Kensington rune stone in Minnesota.
> >> > >> Based on comparison of weathering characteristics of
> >> > >> the chip samples obtained from slate tombstones, the
> >> > >> biotite mica that was exposed at the time of the
> >> > >> original inscription on the Kensington Rune Stone
> >> > >> took longer than 194 years to completely weather away.
> >> > >> The conclusion is that the Kensington Rune Stone must
> >> > >> be older than the 18th century." [Scott Wolters]
> >> > >
> >> > >Wolters has probably exaggerated his conclusion. And BTW how
> >> > >does one factor in that this stone was used as a doorstep before
> >> > >Wolters tested it
> >> >
> >> > Definitely not so. Apparently that's that's a myth invented by
Blegen.
> >> >
> >> > >and after the first examination was made, that
> >> > >examination stating that there was very little powder in the
> >> > >inscriptions [The betina can be explained by the stone lying
> >> > >face down in the soil under some pressure].
> >> > >
> >> > > Does Wolters account for the the post discovery history of the
> >> > >stone.
> >> >
> >> > I gather he has been investigating it very thoroughly: probably more
> >> > thoroughly than anyone else so far.
> >>
> >> Wolter has done more than twice as advanced and as thoroughly
> >> investigations, studies and test as anyone before him or after him,
Swedish
> >> geologists and runologists included.
> >
> >I daresay - but not enough by a long way... and where are his results?
>
> There you go again. "not enough by a long way" you say but you don't
> actually have the foggiest idea of what he has done.
>
> Like all of your arguments, this one is riddled with holes where the
> evidence should be.

Pot, kettle, black.

> >
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> Eric Stevens

Steve 

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