Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

cgjt wrote: 
"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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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.

I know; that's what the ducking and running was about. We're incredibly spoiled. When gas got to over about $.75 per litre a couple of months ago, we all thought the sky was falling. Most folks in Europe (to include Britain, which has its own oil) would kill for that price.




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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.


Delicate, yes; in some ways. In other ways, incredibly tough. In all ways (except for tossing 200# rocks from shore into them) the best small watercraft for mixed river and lake use.

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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.

I'd suggest you be judicious about what we in the New World say about stuff in our back yard. One of the markers of real (as opposed to Ingerish) scholarship is that real scholars and scientists provide references, and are happy to be corrected. Well, not always 'happy;' but at least ready to be corrected.

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