Re: The Vinland Map's Ink

Tom McDonald
> think that's one reason some folks, including Seaver, considered
that the forger's (assuming for argument's sake that it is a forgery)
motive included being just good enough to convince those who wanted to
be convinced, while being just hinky enough to get skeptics to blow
the whistle on it.
>
> It could be that the notional forger did the best job s/he could,
and it wasn't bulletproof. Or, of course, it could be that the thing
is authentic, and later activity added and changed the character of
the map such that the questions about its authenticity became
reasonable.
>
> It'll be interesting to see what, if anything, the Danish
investigation turns up.
>

OR he/she who was forced to make the map,
made it the way that those who know latin notice the errors in the
text and those who know maps notice the coastlines among many other
things and "blow the whistle on it".

In Adam von Bremens "Descriptio insularum Aquilonis" -book (prior
1085) Winland is mentioned: "Praeterea unam adhuc insulam recitavit a
multis in eo repertam *[b:fd968d1c39]occeano, quae dicitur
Winland[/b:fd968d1c39], eo quod ibi vites sponte nascantur, vinum
optimum ferentes".

If we use soundings on the *[b:fd968d1c39]bold[/b:fd968d1c39] part we
got a message in Finnish telling that "The Winland map is a fake".
Finnish language is the only language you can hide this way. It's
called "Runo Memorous". The germans did not know writing or latin
enough so they forced the Finns to do the work for them. However, the
germans did not know of the Runo Memorous and the Finns hidden own
messages in the texts they were forced to write. So we have thousands
of pages of historical information in documents est 500BC - est 1800AD
telling what really happend.
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