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

Alaca wrote:

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I remembered this:
http://www.marcopolovoyages.com/Articles/NordicHeritageDates.html

Nordic Heritage of New World Discovery: a Chronology
compiled by Gunnar Thompson, Ph.D.
Director, Multicultural Discovery Project
International Heritage Society
  ...
    1346 Bubonic plague reaches Iceland ahead of
    the epidemic in England suggesting spread of the
    disease along the route of the North Atlantic fur
    trade from America.

Interesting. Reiersgord says that the Black Death didn't show up in Iceland until 1402. His citations for this are:

Headley, P.C. 1874. _The Island of Fire; or A Thousand Years of the Old Northman's Home_ p.265. Lee & Shepard, Boston. MA.

Gjerset, Knut. 1924. _History of Iceland_ p. 245 and 257. The Macmillan Company, New York, NY.

Interestingly, he does use Thompson, a 1996 publication; but not WRT this issue.

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