Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

"m_zalar@xxxxxxxxxxx" <m_zalar@xxxxxxxxxxx> says in
news:1118059017.741910.240190@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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>
> 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.

But the Old Abercrombie trail would have been usable by anyone who
liesure or not, managed to carve a 200 lb stone, and how exactly did
he carry it. So basically some sort of cart is part of the equation.

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