Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:35:40 -0500, "t(nospam)kavanagh"
<"tkavanag"@(nospam)indiana.edu> wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:12:41 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >Eric Stevens wrote: 5j8pa1hamqmhc312uh17v0sq1psulkiei0@xxxxxxx,
>> >
>> >> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:39:42 +0100, Doug Weller
>> >> <dweller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> --- snip ---
>> >>
>> >>>>> Apart from which. At least two remains of non-native Pre-Columbian
>> >>>>> boats/ships/vessels have been found south of Hudson Bay.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>> I accept that but, so little is known of them that it is not
>> >>>> possible to say where they were built or where the wood they were
>> >>>> built from was grown.
>> >>>
>> >>> Can you give some details about these then?
>> >>
>> >> I've read of the two separate finds. I don't know where I read it and
>> >> it was some years ago. If I remember correctly the finds were made in
>> >> the 19th century and the article I saw had no illustrations and gave
>> >> very few details. Both boats were found half buried in swamps, were
>> >> identified as being very old and of a construction quite different
>> >> from contemporary practice. I don't know they were specifically
>> >> identified as being norse but they were described as being of a type
>> >> characteristic of the norse. Unfortunately for dating purposes, some
>> >> of these boat types have been built largely unchanged for a thousand
>> >> years.
>> >
>> >Try this:
>> >http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4g1bv3.html
>> >
>> > "" For example, the 60-foot canoe from
>> > Nitinat Lake on Vancouver Island shown
>> > below--likely a Nookta canoe, or one
>> > similar in size to those used by Nookta
>> > whalers--is in fact larger than Skuldelev 5,
>> > a Norse longship with 26 oarsmen and
>> > total crew of 30. ""
>>
>> I was thinking of something more along the lines of
>> http://home.online.no/~joeolavl/viking/oselvar.htm but possibly
>> larger.
>
>Is that one dug-out? If not, there's no comparison to the NWC.
>
It wasn't meant to be.

I meant it to mean that this was more along the lines of the boats the
Norse might have built. The illustrated boat uses sawn timber and a
14th century verion is likely to have used narrower split or adzed
planks, but the form and general construction would have been much the
same.





Eric Stevens

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