Re: Links to The Northern World

From: I.E_Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_telia.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:38:03 GMT

"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz> skrev i meddelandet
news:lb052195ok48tsg7o0s5vn2as9eejv8pup@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:32:24 -0600, Tom McDonald
> <tmcdonald2672@nohormelcharter.net> wrote:
>
> >Eric Stevens wrote:
> >> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:59:04 -0000, "William Black"
> >> <abuse@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Alan Crozier" <name1.name2@telia.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:NRMTd.131315$dP1.470257@newsc.telia.net...
> >>>
> >>>>"I.E_Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@telia.com> wrote in message
> >>>>news:ewLTd.131310$dP1.470425@newsc.telia.net...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>The so called Asa Gods, the Gods the Icelandic Sagas say
> >>>>>existed during Viking Age which was more or less the period of St
> >>>
> >>>Ansgars
> >>>
> >>>>>and on, aren't known to have exist before Migration Age
> >>>>
> >>>>Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...
> >>>
> >>>Oh yes it is.
> >>>
> >>>Or are we going to have a debate about medieval steam engines?
> >>
> >>
> >> If there had been medieval steam engines it would not have been
> >> necessary for so many people to struggle to reinvent them in the 18th
> >> century. Isn't the evidence of invention evidence of prior
> >> non-invention?
> >
> > Evidence? Yes.
> >
> > But one could easily build a convincing theory that, for
> >instance, the Templars (why not? they are an all-purpose sekrit
> >sosytheity for everything else) brought the knowledge of Hero's
> >engine back to Europe after the Crusades, and used an improved
> >version to power the mechanical chisels used to carve the
> >goodies in Rosslynn Chapel; then hid it all in Arthur's Cave
> >(the real one-where Arthur is buried) when they got busted by
> >the French King.
> >
> > That sort of thinking is vital to the type of archaeological
> >work done by such gifted archaeologists as Graham Han*** and
> >Eric von Daniken. Surely you must allow the possibility?
> >
> > :-)
>
> Anything is possible. It all depends on which universe you happen to
> be living in at the time.

Not at all. There are a lot of scholars here as well as descendants to the
Knights Templars knowing more about Roslyn than I do. As for Arthurian I
have read a lot and while I am certain that the one we refer to as King
Arthur was buried in a specific grave discussed here some years ago, I never
seen anything indicating that there could be a link between King Arthur, who
actually was a co-king together with one of his brothers under their father
who was a local king close to the Scottish border if sources from 6th-9th
century are reliable, and the later Knights. That's myths as far as I see
it.

Inger E
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> Eric Stevens
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