Re: Challenge for naysayers of the Kensington Runestone

Apparently on date Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:52:12 GMT, Philip Deitiker
<Donevenask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says in
>news:2207g1dmq73eoaolr0l4konbn0jnjmrvu8@xxxxxxx:
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>> This is where I get confused as to what you are trying to say. A
>> distance of 500 miles as their maximum range of operations makes
>> no sense to me at all - they're capable of 300 miles in the
>> Viking era as a routine "raiding" voyage. They're doing that,
>> out of sight of land, to get to Shetland, Faroes and Iceland and
>> nobody is disputing they were managing this without any
>> difficulty.
>
>To what end would they have traveled farther west, often along
>passages blocked by ice?

Deny it if you want, but the Norse did go all the way west to greenland.

>> To go from Iceland to the eastern settlement they're looking at
>> a trip of 700 miles - although they can make a crossing of 200
>> miles to the Greenland coast and then down 700 miles. I don't
>> know which way they went but airline direct routes are 700 mile
>> ones and doubt they do it that well. I'd favour the 700 miles
>
>700 miles is not a problem over a well established route. Obviously
>in 1350 when the ice flows headed south they had to travel the longer
>routes.

Iceland to the eastern settlement on greenland simply is 700 miles. They did it
centuries before 1350 and I'm confused as to what your "longer routes" are.
There clearly were no (recorded) sites between iceland the eastern settlement
and nor were there prior to 900+ when the eastern settlement was established.

>> Then it is 500 miles from the western settlement to Markland,
>
>Where is Markland? Is there a map where Markland has been mapped.

Markland is generally accepted to be the labrador coast. But if you don't
believe the Norse got further west than Iceland this is all, obviously, moot.

I won't bother reading the rest of your "there never were any Norse" reply
which is clearly denial and crackpottery and I'll request you killfile me
properly so you don't start pointless sub-threads on my posts, thanks in
advance.

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