Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 12:21:11 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Eric Stevens wrote: 21f5a1p7dcq51rjqtidu5eu2vg1vh0uioe@xxxxxxx,
> >> "Alaca" wrote:
> >>> David Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Or, IOW, the whole tree root digression is pointless, even by the
> >>>> rather low standards of KRS discussions...
> >>>>
> >>>> David
> >>>
> >>> That is correct.
> >>> It was only relevant in the search for a perpetrator.
> >>
> >> A parallel line of enquiry relates as to when it was perpetrated. This
> >> bears directly on the question of the authenticity of the KRS.
> >
> >No, tree age and rootmarks are useless as dating-
> >and authenticity tools and therefore irrelevant in the
> >KRS discussion.
> >It was only relevant once for the question if it was
> >possible that the finder made de KRS in the 27 (?)
> >preceding years.
> >If that was possible or not says nothing about the
> >authenticity of the stone.
>
> The favourite forger in the minds of most people was Olaf Ohman. If he
> didn't do it then it is much more difficult to identify a potential
> forger. If one's forger remains no more than a hypothesis, built
> around an unknown person, for the existence of whom there is no
> evidence, then it is that much harder to claim the stone is a forgery.

If we don't go back to 1520's that is. Then there was a Danish priest
onboard a ship that sailed to reclaim lost land south of Greenland.

Inger E
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> Eric Stevens
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