Re: Spirit Pond, Maine

From: I E Johansson (ingerxjohanssonx_at_telia.com)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:27:24 GMT

"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> skrev i meddelandet
news:rc1cl01ut2bnp50om5lgg4d2o1scs7idsm@4ax.com...
> On 25 Sep 2004 13:20:19 -0700, "Hal" <SpamThis1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I E Johansson wrote:
> >> Tom,
> >> on the contrary you are just witness to the first small start of what
> >will
> >> be a flood of information relating to KRS and other stones AND
> >context are
> >> known for at least half of them. Not to mention other Pre-Columbian
> >> Scandinavian artifacts.......
> >
> >Why don't you visit your local museum for a good selection of
> >Pre-Columbian Scandinavian artifacts. Most of them are probably
> >authentic. People will agree with you.
> >
> >Oh boy - if only you know what's to be
> >> presented with full proof from many scholars around the world within
> >the
> >> next two years.
> >> As one scholar who looked at KRS when it was here and who have
> >listened to
> >> both sides and who also have had access to full proof of every word I
> >> written in group, said:
> >> We will be writing down North America's Medieval History within a
> >short
> >> time.
> >> And he is partly correct.
> >>
> >North America doesn't have a Medieval History. That's a European
> >concept that applies to some parts of Europe, at some times. It's
> >pretty well meaningless elsewhere outside of theme parks and the
> >entertainment business. You mean you want to impose your little
> >universe on the world as it actually existed here. In North America we
> >were enjoying the last little bit of relative calm before the European
> >invasion. I don't think it matters a bit which one of you was first
> >discovered by people.
>
> So Drake wasn't an Elizabethan voyager when he visited North America?

Apart from that I take it that Hal and many others haven't heard latest
information re. the Indian practise to write down information on bark. Eric,
I believe it was you who one way or an other gave me a hint of an url from
where I have 'walked' to articles in Journals. Can't you send some
information re. the Pre-Columbian Indian writing which has been ignored upto
lately.

Inger E
>
>
>
> Eric Stevens

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