Re: Chinese or Viking fort on Cape Breton?


"IEJ" <Ijohansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Doug Weller" <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Although whatever Menzies said at the conference at the Library of
SNIP for simplicity
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> Well if it's Viking Age (= up to 1050/1100) you are very much thinking the
> same as I do; but if it's from 1300's to 1480 then things comes in a
> complete different light. If you for example look at the village of Vreta
> Kloster at that time located south of the church in Vreta close to a non
> missing Iron Age lake west of the village, there was a main street going
> thru but three other ways going almost parallell from the points below and
> up a small fall. The village didn't have especially many people living in.
> Thus we can't, if the information of how the streets went directly assume
> that people lived the way we today believe they did, no matter if they
> were
> from Scandinavia or not. I think we need more direct and hard proof such
> as
> good map and at least one reliable archaeologist looking into it very
> closely.
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> Inger E

Agreed, but I insist that a competent geologist is equally important in this
case. I live in a very Chinese part of Canada so I would suggest that the
two scientists look for evidence of:

Corner stores

Laundromats

cheap restaurants

Fish ponds

fast vehicles

poor driving skills

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