Re: What's So Important About KRS?



Andy68 wrote:
> So, I've been lurking around here for a while because I think
> archaeology is an interesting subject. I couldn't help but notice that
> there seems to be a small amount of disagreement about a carved stone
> found in America. Looking through the threads, I find that this
> disagreement has been going on for a long, long time.
>
> I am wondering what the importance is to people arguing both sides?
> Maybe some people who have been posting could reply to this with a note
> about why they think this issue is important, how they are personally
> invested in it, etc. I'd like a little "background" in order to read
> the threads.
>
> Thanks,
>
There was, some years ago, a 'Columbus found America' celebration and
the KRS mysteriously emerged around this particular time.
It is already known that the Scandinavians reached the Americas
(once)at L'Anse aux Meadows and settled for a few years
(unsuccessfully) just as they did in Greenland and Iceland.
Apart from being a particularly obvious forgery the KRS is not
important.
As an item of interest as to the gullibility of people it is a current
object lesson as to how archaeology does not work!
There are some of Scandinavian descent who desperately cling to it as
proof of their superiority.

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