The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

From: D. Spencer Hines (poguemidden_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:14:55 -0000

This is the material folks need to read to become even minimally
competent to discuss the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation.

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm

Further:

Pogue Gans continues to lie through his teeth about this important
matter:

"...Yale bought it without bothering to check with experts."

P. Jonathan Gans -- Radical Chic, Greenwich-Village Marxist, Proven Liar
And NYU Chemist.

Gans has been corrected on this MANY times -- yet he continues to LIE
about it. I'm calling him out on his LIES yet again.

Yale did NOT BUY the Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation.

Paul Mellon bought them, reportedly for $300,000 in 1957, and only
donated them to Yale, AFTER they had been authenticated.

Only after seven years of scrutiny were the documents authenticated by
the experts and then donated by Paul Mellon to Yale's Beinecke Rare Book
Library.

They have been extensively checked by experts -- continuing to this day.
Read Hu McCullough's superb article.

Yale has been quite open and willing to have New Experts, with new
scientific techniques, examine and test the documents -- even to the use
of destructive techniques on part of the Vinland Map, in order to
determine the age of the paper.

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm

"After this discovery, Skelton and Painter reconsidered their prior
doubts about the map, and became enthusiastic supporters. An anonymous
donor (later revealed to have been Paul Mellon) paid Mrs. Witten
approximately $300,000 for the two volumes and donated them to Yale
University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In 1965, the
Yale University Press published, with much fanfare, a volume entitled
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation (VMTR) with extensive essays
supporting the authenticity of the map by Skelton, Marston, and Painter,
and an introduction by Alexander O. Vietor, curator of Maps at Yale's
Sterling Library.

These authors concluded that the map was made circa 1440, in conjunction
with the Council of Basel. The map has an agenda clearly calculated to
please the Catholic prelates assembled for the Council: Its captions
tell of the Carpini mission carrying the Faith to Tartary in the
Northeast, Bishop Eric Gnupsson visiting Vinland in the Northwest,
Prester John established in the Southeast, and even Saint Brendan
checking out the Antilles in the Southwest."

http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/vinland/vinland.htm

D. Spencer Hines

Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Vires et Honor

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