Re: Hines- Fool Or Fraud?

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"Alaca" said:
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"Alaca" wrote
nospam.pammers.of.the.world.unite.com wrote: 

[length of a ell]

Well ok, and also from the same King's Mirror:
to tame trees and boards, so that by fastening boards seven or
eight ells long under his feet, a man, who is no fleeter than
other men can you imagine the practicality of skis that are 30
feet long?


Very good for passing cracks in the ice :-)
[...]
  measuring cloth. In the English system, one ell
   equals 20 nails, 45 inches, or 1.25 yards (exactly
   1.143 meters).The word comes from the Latin
   ulna, which originally meant the elbow and is now
   the name of the bone on the outside of the

Still very long skis. 

Scale it down to about 0.25 meter and all the dimensions all now
happily fit the animal lengths, descriptions of skis, etc. Which
approach do you believe is most worthwhile?


Yours of course. But the problem is interesting because
the Speculum ell seems to be unknown.


It may be a translation feature for all I know. That's why I
footnoted what the original author intended to imply, rather than
leaving it "raw".


But I think that in that period ice of one meter was equealy
impassable as four meter.


Sure, no ice breakers afloat at the time.

OTOH the ice melts and forms seasonally, go around the coast in
summer and you can put in to shore fairly well, or so it seems from
the usual Google refs. The interior of Greenland stayed frozen all
year round, as it does today. I don't know what the conditions were
like in the Viking era, there seem to be many versions of that. But
the ice would be much the same, judging by the Speculum.

It does seem interesting that the author of it, recommends sailing
during the summer months, basically April through to September. If
the Norse really were avoiding putting to sea during winter, they
should, as a consequence, not be finding the shores constantly locked
by sea ice. I wonder if that means there was *more* ice around at the
time compared to today?


As far as I know there still is no reliable answer to that.
But as we all know, the VM-defenders are the best
climatologist in the world, and if they say the climate
was warm, it is best for you better to believe them ;-)

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