Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> 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.
>

Well, this may not be Norse but sure once used by the Norse during
their trips to the East.

http://www.qnet.fi/rus-project/Monoxyla.html

And regarding the time to build one I may quote from;

http://www.abo.fi/skargarden/2003-3/ruukel.htm

'' I byn Tõramaa bodde de berömda äspingsmakarbröderna
Aleksander och Jüri Olev, som ofta tingades till andra gårdar för att
bygga äsping och som under goda år hann med 30 stycken, alla
enligt sitt kännspaka vackra snitt. Bröderna Olevs äspingar var
berömda för sin lätthet.''

Shortly, it say that two skilled brothers made 30 boats during a good year.

So with and axe to fell the tree, an adze to dig out the trunk, a drill and
fire and water a few men can have a boat within a week or two.

JerryT

> 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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