Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press


"IEJ" <Iejohansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:03:36 +0100, "Dylan Sung"
>> <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >
>> >"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:20:39 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>Eric Stevens wrote: ahbca19pihtpj8m8q7l9lb9h3ivg558qvt@xxxxxxx,
>> >>>
>> >>>> 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.
>> >>>
>> >>>What conclusion is that? The distance?
>> >>
>> >> That, and the 85km/day.
>> >>
>> >>>That has nothing to do with the origin of the stone.
>> >>
>> >> It has everything to do with where it was carved as distinct from
>> >> where it was found.
>> >
>> >
>> >Forgive for pointing this out, but 85 km per day on foot, with no roads
> over
>> >unknown terrain by a party of tax collectors (as per Inger) - not
>> >usually
>> >thought of as particularly energetic people, is an impossibility. To top
> it
>> >off, why would they burden themselves with a useless stone, knowing they
>> >were also under persuit? Doesn't make any sense to me.
>> >
>> Which is why there may be something fundamentally wrong with that
>> hypothesis.
>
> I take it that some aren't that good at walking as others......
>

That is a truely ridiculous comment.

http://walking.about.com/cs/longdistance/a/longwalks.htm

40 km per day, even 50 km per day for well supported event walkers are
possible. Even 100km (in 24 hours) walkers are possible. But this is today,
and they only do it as single day events for the longer distances in the
modern world where there is food, support and routes to follow. The people
who were talked about in the KRS were being hunted, in terrain which they
are unfamiliar and they may have had to scavenge for food, sleep and
probably tierd. Are you saying Swedish Tax Collectors of the 14th century
are superfit humans on a par with modern atheletes, able to carry a block of
stone whilst they are undertaking a gruelling 85 km hike per day?

Dyl.


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