Re: The Vinland Map's Ink

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> Iron-gall inks came into use in the 9th century and by
> the 11th century had largely replaced carbon inks as
> a writing medium.
> http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt0583.html
>
> Examination of parchment manuscripts from the 9th
> to 15th centuries indicate that all were written with
> iron-gal inks in which no trace of carbon could be found.
> Carbon inks, however, continued to be used for
> documents...
> http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt1849.html
>
> Probably almost all later medieval manuscripts are
> written with iron gall
> http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/ink.html

My point to Eric is that the properties of the pyramids do not
draw their stipulated origins into question. The properties of
the Vinland map given the history of the period and its
'deviant properties' do draw it up for questioning. And thus
the question about the processes of how it was assembled
deserves more attention than other cross-corroborating
documents of the period.

In a court of law one does not try everyone for every crime
ever committed to see which one committed the crime, one
selects amoung those who might have or probably committed a
crime. This is the same thing, we don't need to question every
historic documents origin just those that stand out as
excessively deviant relative to the putative contemporary
counterparts.
The process by which the VM was made is both germane to its
authenticity and if so disproven germane to the mode of
disengenuine behaviors and mechanics that produced it.


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