Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 23:40:47 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>IEJ wrote: ipnpe.139760$dP1.490883@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>
>> "Alaca" skrev
>>>
>>> BTW. I think it is a strange aspect of the story
>>> that they were traveling south, away from their ship.
>>
>> That one is one of the easy ones to answer. At that time there were
>> more than one group of Scandinavians living in mid of US closer to
>> the place where Mississippi river is. Ivar Bardson was as his
>> collegue they left behind in Iceland been given the task/mission to
>> collect the tithes from ALL dioceses under Gardar. There were three
>> at that time and one of them were in NA according to several
>> documents forgotten by scholars since 1780's when they last were
>> mentioned and analysed...
>
>Who was that?
>And have you any idea who the leader of the exepedition was,
>the man who wrote on the KRS "I have 10 men at the inland sea
>to look after our ship" ? Do you think that was Bardson?
>And how did they manage to travel c. 85 km a day (at least
>1200 km in 14 days) with a heavy load in such rough terrain?

That is a conclusion based on the assumption that the KRS was carved
where it was found. As Reiersgord has pointed out, it is quite
possible that it was carved somewhere else.



Eric Stevens

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