Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:35:30 GMT, "cgjt" <cgjt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"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 :-)>
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>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?
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>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.

I wouldn't think so. After making allowance for scale a birch bark
canoe is about as robust as many a long boat.
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>> > If there is two clinker built boats in a museum I trust that
>> > the museum knows what it is they have.
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>> 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.
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>Yes sorry me confused in a confused thread.
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>> > There is nothing
>> > that will make me thrust Inger E Johansson.
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>> YE GODS! PLEASE tell me you meant 'trust'!
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>Ripping my nails of so they never again will interfere
>with me typing. Now I need a whiskey for my thurst.
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>> 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.
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>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.
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> JjT
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>> --
>> Tom McDonald
>> http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/
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Eric Stevens

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