Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

Steve Marcus wrote:  uWBqe.47043$Fv.40266@lakeread01,

"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 

But I was not relying on boats built from wreckage. I was referring
to people who cut down trees, reduced them to planks and timbers and
built a boat from them.


Amazing!

Why build a boat?  Well, they were in hostile territory, far from
their "ship(s)" in the "inland sea", and needed to escape.  So
naturally, they engage in a round of felling trees, reducing the
trees to planks and timbers, and building a boat (just one?; would it
have been large enough to transport all of them while being small
enough to navigate the available water system?)

This certainly seems to be an illogical alternative to simply hauling
their tushies out the vicinity at a the highest possible rate of
speed. Of course, when speculating in defense of a good "alternative
history" story, you never did see a need to rely upon logic, did you
Eric? 

And all upriver and uphill. Then down the Missisipi or
Missouri, collect some tax and back they go to to their
waiting comrades in Hudson Bay.
All according to Inger of course.

For an impression of the terrain they faced
from Hudson Bay, see  the relief maps for
Manitoba and Ontario in The Atlas of Canada
http://tinyurl.com/7f6fp

and the Manitoba landcover map
http://tinyurl.com/aggce

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