Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 05:27:07 +0200, Erik Hammerstad
<egeha.is.all.you.need@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:12:32 +0200, Erik Hammerstad
>> <egeha.is.all.you.need@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>m_zalar@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>
>>><snip>
>>>
>>>>Let me suggest a scenario. The group believes they are in Asia,
>>>>somewhere near Cathay (as is suggested in the Mercator/Dee letter).
>>>>They have followed the Red River inland to the first set of waterfalls,
>>>>near what is now Fergus Falls, MN, camping on the south side of the
>>>>River where the 10 men were attacked and the boats stolen or destroyed.
>>>
>>>And still no explanantion for how they brought boats (did a knorr
>>>carry more than one?) from the Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg. A
>>>short description of the presumed route (in reverse):
>>
>>
>> They could easily have built their own boats. There are precedents for
>> this.
>
>Not easily and not shortly. And where and when sre the precedents?

I don't know about the norse but there are a number of examples around
my part of the world ranging from sealers building small ships in case
their mother ship came back to pick them up, ship wrecked dailors
building both small craft and ships of 50'. An old man I knew, when he
was young at the end of the 19th century, built a small boat every
two weeks with his brother. These were 12' to 20' long and were used
for fishing and general transport around the sounds on the South
Island of New Zealand.

The KRS demonstrates that the carver had a competent set of chisels
(and please, someone, don't trot out that old canard about them being
standard 'inch' sizes. They are not) and presumably the rest of the
ship's carpentering tools. A ship's carpenter could certainly build a
boat if he had to.

--snip --



Eric Stevens

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