Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> says in
news:rqtra1lpq318u9467g0um5tekq79snbbc4@xxxxxxx:

> 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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>>snip
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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.
>>
>>>
>>
>>snip
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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.
>
> I wouldn't think so. After making allowance for scale a birch
> bark canoe is about as robust as many a long boat.

ROFLMAO, Eric, don't ever change.

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