Re: KRS: Final thoughts

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:07:20 GMT, Philip Deitiker
<Donevenask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Philip Deitiker <Nopdeitik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> says in
>news:Xns968263ABCDC64prd@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> In sci.archaeology, Alaca created a message ID
>> news:42c008e1$0$86105$dbd45001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>>
>>> Richard Hakluyt
>>> Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and
>>> Discoveries of the English Nation
>>> chapters 24 and 25
>>> http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/hakluyt/voyages/voyag
>> es.html
>>>
>>> Ívar Bárðarson's description of Greenland
>>> http://www.hum.ku.dk/ami
>>>
>>> Ivar Bardarson Stavanger 1364
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7gz5a
>>>
>>> John Dee, by Charlotte Fell-Smith
>>> 157 pp PDF (sorry, no link at hand)
>>>
>>> Rupes Nigra
>>> http://www.laputanlogic.com/articles/2004/01/07-0001.html
>>
>> At some point I am going to create a dedicated page to
>> Inventio Fortunata and the potential 2 players.
>
>One of the logical points that has come up in the research that Doug
>claims is 'entangled' maybe can be cleared up, the confusion lies in
>the origin of the 8 men, however the european origin of these men is
>actually irrelevant, if they are identified as indigeonous men of
>western origin but the proximate reality is that they were
>greenlanders of unknown origin (West or east).

'proximate reality' - a fancy way of saying 'my prefered speculation'.
The truth is that if anyone knows, they have not succeeded in proving
the fact.

> Thus it becomes unlikely that they would have been identified on
>the KRS as Goths or Norwegians if they were the writers of the
>runestone.

Have you just falsified your own proposition?

>But to resolve that question one would have to know how
>greenlanders would have identified themselves.

If the carvers were Greenlanders.



Eric Stevens

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