Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press


"Erik Hammerstad" <egeha.is.all.you.need@xxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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> cgjt wrote:


> >>
> >>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.
>
> Except that you should wait a year - either before working on the
> tree (page 39 of
> http://www.vitenskapsmuseet.no/spor/pdf/Spornr.1%202001.pdf)

Since this boat biz is all hypothetical...

If you refer to...

''I Finland ble treet hugget om høsten, lå i skygge vinteren over,...''

....and you say that a recently cut down aspen or linden will
not fold out when heated by fire I will take your word for it.


> or
> afterwards (your second URL).

And if it is absolutely necessary to leave it for
drying during the the winter and then treat it with tar
for a long life and reliable use, OK,they did not do it.

But what problem can you see using fresh wood,
build the boat, using it for a season on rivers and
in marshland, wich will keep the wood wet and
prevent cracking, and then leave it to rot when
you get back to the 10 mans we hawet ?

>But also note, the boats were build
> by the locals, not the Norse.

If the Vikings bought boats in the East,
8:göter:ok:22:norrmen could have done
the same in the West 200 Years later.

The knowledge how to make a dugout or sew a canoe
from some planks brought onboard :wore:skip: would
be carried across the plains and the Atlantic with no loss
of time and speed. And the few tools needed would be as
good for cutting a native scull as it would be for cutting wood.


JerryT


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