Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press



Philip Deitiker wrote:
> Who thinks Ohman carved the stone? For some strange reason you
> guys seem to think that minnesota was at the south pole. The fur
> trade in the region had proceeded for centuries prior to the Ohman
> farm, there were oxcart and abandoned fort trails within site
> distance of the hill.

As a note, Ft Abercrombie (ND on the Red River) was built in 1858. Any
trail there probably used the exsisting Red River Ox cart trails as a
basis, which ran a few miles of the KRS site These trails began in the
1820s - anytime before that and there seem to have been no trail or
even fur trade that reached into that area.
The Ox Cart trails were used almost exclusively by Metis travelling
between Winnipeg and the Mississippi river (primarily the
Minneapolis/St Paul region). It is certainly possible that some
Norseman travelled this route, but it seems highly unlikely (I have
kept an eye out for any such report but have seen none). The Red River
trails should not be considered some easy highway that anyone could
travel at thier leisure - they were there for a certain specialized
trade between two points, and not in frerquent use.

Michael

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