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

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:29:59 -0500, Tom McDonald
<tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Alaca wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>> 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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Eric Stevens

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