Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press


"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
news:166re.19943$mZ2.16784@xxxxxxxxxxx


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>
> BTW, I commiserate about the price of gas. Here in Wisconsin,
> we're now paying about $2.15 per gallon. <ducks and runs :-)>

You do know about Swedish tax ?
We pay about $5,5 / gallon nowdays.

>

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> FWIW, the French missionaries that came to Wisconsin early on
> used large birch bark canoes to get around. A couple of such
> canoes would have been just the ticket for a notional KRS party
> in western Minnesota. I wonder whether cultural differences
> between the midaeval Norse and the 17th century French might have
> inclined one group to accept native watercraft and the other to
> reject them?
>

If stubborness amnong the scandinavians can be called cultural,
I would say absolutely. They might even been afraid to
set out in such a delicate construction.


> >
> > If there is two clinker built boats in a museum I trust that
> > the museum knows what it is they have.
>
> And I would like to know about the museum, to ask them directly.
> Inger hasn't deigned to tell us, and I must have missed it if
> anyone else did tell us. Aside from tk's mention of two dugouts
> in an Indiana museum, that is.
>

Yes sorry me confused in a confused thread.

>
>
> > There is nothing
> > that will make me thrust Inger E Johansson.
>
> YE GODS! PLEASE tell me you meant 'trust'!
>

Ripping my nails of so they never again will interfere
with me typing. Now I need a whiskey for my thurst.

> The Horror! The Horror!
>
>

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> I don't trust Inger to give sane references any more than you
> do; or do I accept what she gives without real investigation if
> she appears to.

If it is about my neighborhood I can check it.
If needed and wanted I will post proper facts.
For NA stuff I trust you over there rather than
her hilerious claims.


JjT

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> Tom McDonald
> http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/


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