Re: Reiersgord's _The Kensington Rune Stone--Its Place In History_


"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Eric Stevens wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> It is believed that there was more than one form of plague involved in
>> the 'Black Death'. See
>> http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/06.shtml for example.
>
> Eric,
>
> Do you have Reiersgord's book, or did you just borrow it? If you have it
> to hand, it might be useful for you to help me keep up, and to share the
> research you did when you were reading it.
>
> Reiersgord has a fairly extensive bibliography, but he wrote the book in a
> more popular style, using few direct in-text references. Maddeningly,
> those few references I've read so far relate to relatively fine points,
> and are of limited value in supporting his views. He makes sweeping
> statements of what he considers facts, but doesn't seem to reference
> support for them other than sometimes mentioning the name of a person who
> wrote in such support.
>
> I do not wish, at this early time, to judge Reiersgord's work as a whole,
> but on the issue of references the book so far is much like Fell's _Bronze
> Age America_; lots of assertions, some general references to people who
> support bits of the ideas, but very few specific references that one can
> easily follow.
>
> Perhaps that will change as I get deeper into the book.
>
> <snip>

Hardly. If one looks at the effects of European diseases on Native
Americans, the idea of the plague affecting just 10 people is
patently ridiculous.
There are only two possible scenarios in that case (the plague) :

(a) All except 10 were immune to that sort of plague (snort)
and all of the 10 were at the same time at the same place

(b) They caught an American version of the plague (snort)
Where's the American Ebola - virus ?

While the nature of the Black Death(s) might not be known fully,
I've never come across a description "red with blood" in the
context with plague victims, but only in the context of slaughter or
murder.
Judging by your description of his citations (are they like "McNaughton,
1980, p.224 "?)
Reiersgord sounds suspiciously like a German kook (Illig).
Could you give an example which could be traced ? Just to look at the
quality
of his citations.

Cheers,

Michael Kuettner





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