Comments to the Danish Study of the Vinland Map

Quote 1
" Book bindings
The SH is bound in a binding contemporary with the manuscript, but the book
has undergone restoration at least twice. The most recent restoration can be
attributed to a date which is later than that of the invention of synthetic
glues in the early 1930's. " (page 10 right bottom corner).

IEJ: This isn't at all surprising. The question which hasn't been answered
here is when the first resoration took place. Please note the last sentence
above quote 1: "Moreover, FT-Raman analysis of the areas of VM parchment not
covered by text and drawings would be of interest to see if these areas
contain anatase too."
Compare this with quote 2(page 12 second paragraph left):
"Therefore, comparative FT-Raman analysis of ink on historic European
parchment would be of interest".
As I read this, said by the Danish scholars, it indirectly state that the
anatase can't be used to falsify VM before such an analysis is completed
including a large or relatively large number of historic European parchment.
I seriously do hope that such an analyse can be done and that the naysayers
using anatase as an argument can wait with their speculations until then.

In the third paragraph page 12 the report states that VM been restored by
non-professionals. Combined with the information provided in quote 1 above
this seems to have been the second time the map was restored.

Quote 3:
"Our findings presented above clearly indicate that both the SH and the TR,
as they appear today, were previously bound together with other book pages.
Moreover, a recent discovery in Luzern, Switzerland, of a 100 year earlier
copy of SH contain a copy of the TR strongly supports this possibility.(page
12 bottom paragraf left continued upper right corner).

This isn't at all surprising. While I haven't needed information for the
origin of SH, I do know that the 1430 map I referred to many times were kept
in a castle in Ulm. That map and other documents later came to the Vatican
state. If it was or wasn't bound together with a copy of SH, a copy of TR or
with both during the period in Ulm or at the Basel Convent, would of course
been of interest to the discussion for future investigations brought up by
the Danish scholars. Please read the last paragraph bottom right on page 12.

The third paragraph right on page 12 is of very strong interest for future
discussions re. VM:
quote 4:
" The fact that the VM map cannot have been produced on the parchment bound
in a book, and that no evidence can be found of any interventions to the
books have been made in the 20th century prior to the rebinding, points
towards that, if a recent forgery, the map must have been produced after the
1940's. However, if the VM was originally bound together in front of the SH,
as indicated by the match of the wormholes, the two wormholes penetrating
part of the text of the map points towards a much earlier production of the
map, as it would have been difficult to avoid the ink to bleed by writing
over the wholes. Signs of this cannot be observed and have not been reported
by others. "

IEJ: This gives two very interesting facts even if the Danish scholars haven
't stressed it:
That no signs of ink bleed by writing o v e r the wholes, seems to support
that the wormholes observed not only on VM but on TR at least could be used
as an indicator that it's not especially likely for a forger to have been
drawing and writing VM. As commented above: VM has been treated for
conservation not once but twice and the last occasion after 1930. This is a
strong argument for VM being genuine. Either it's the 1430 map I written to
groups about or it's an old copy of that one.

Inger E Johansson







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