Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

Seppo Renfors <Renfors@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Per Rønne wrote:
> >
> > Seppo Renfors <Renfors@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Aha.... and pray tell how could it have found it's way to where it was
> > > found some 100 years before any other known European people visited
> > > the area?
> >
> > Because it never found it ways to Minnesota a century before any other
> > Europeans visited the area.
>
> Are you saying someone in Sweden/Norway brought the stone with them,
> that had been carved some 100 years earlier? That they managed to
> plant this large stone under a tree before anyone arrived in the
> district?

No, it was carved in Minnesota. In the late 1800s.

> > It was found 1898.

> So? It most certainly was NOT carved then, but at least 100 years
> before that.

> Fact: The stone was under a tree that had germinated and grown over
> the stone.
> Fact: That tree dated back to before any Europeans were in that
> district.
> Fact: The tree's age predates Ohman's arrival in the USA.
> Fact: the runes were carved at least 100 years before the stone was
> found.
>
> These are ALL established facts.

They are /not/.

> You cannot get away from them,
> WITHOUT a study showing ALL of those to be wrong. It isn't sufficient
> you question ONE point and place that in doubt you have to disprove
> all of them. No point in ignoring these facts, they have been
> established via studies, observations, sworn statements and the like.
>
> > And let me quote from the Great Danish Encyclopædia:
>
> No not interested as there is no consensus on the item yet.

There seem to be consensus amongst the experts. But not consensus with
the kind of people who still think the moon landing was a fraud.

--
Per Erik Rønne
.

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