Re: Last word not said for the Vinland Map

From: Steve Marcus (smarcus_spamout__at_cox.net)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:52:03 -0500

"IE.Johansson" <ingerx_e.johanssonx@telia.com> wrote in message
news:Ad1pd.9413$d5.83782@newsb.telia.net...
> As those who can read Danish can see the last word hasn't been said for
> the
> Vinland Map.
> http://www.berlingske.dk/indland/artikel:aid=508720/
> (article from 24th Nov)
>
> "På lørdag drager eksperter fra Det Kongelige Bibliotek og
> Konservatorskolen
> i København til Yale University i USA, hvor de får en uge til at analysere
> det såkaldte Vinlandskort, der angiveligt stammer fra 1400-tallet og
> dermed
> er det allerførste landkort, hvor Vinland og dermed Nordamerika er
> afbilledet"
>
> Quick translation: On Saturday experts from the Konglige Library and from
> the Konservatorskolen[school for those who will restore artifacts] in
> Copenhagen to Yale University in US, where they during one week will be
> analysing the so called Vinland Map, said to origin from 15th century and
> thus the earliest map, where Vinland and North America was mapped."
>
> .....
> "En af forskerne i projektet, Konservatorskolens rektor René Larsen,
> tvivler
> dog på, at danskerne finder frem til den endelige sandhed om kortet, som
> Yale University købte, da det sensationelt dukkede op i 1957.
>
> »Men vi kan formentlig bidrage med væsentligt nyt. Ved at sammenholde den
> viden, vi allerede har, med den viden, vi får, kan vi i højere grad
> sandsynliggøre, om kortet er ægte eller ej,« siger han og tilføjer, at den
> endelige analyse er færdig om et par måneder."
>
> Quick translation: One of the expert scholars, rector[president US
> English]
> for the Konservatorskolen Réné Larsen, are unsure, if the Danish will be
> able to find the full truth re. the map, bought by Yale University, when
> it
> sensationally was found in 1957.
>
> » But we will probably be able to add new information. Together with the
> collective knowledge, we have, and the new knowledge we gain [from
> analysing
> the map], we may be able to add a considerable higher level of
> plausibility
> to the full truth, if the map is genuine or not, « he say adding, that the
> final analyse[of the testresults] will take some month."
>
> ----------- end of quote --------
> This is only one out of many alike 'reconsideration'/new analyse which are
> on the way for artifacts dealing with the Pre-Columbian contacts between
> natives and Scandinavians in NA.
> More to come during the next months.

I doubt it.
>
> Inger E

Steve 

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