Re: New book on Vinland

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 01:50:55 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx>
wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote:
>> "Peter Alaca" wrote:
>>> Eric Stevens wrote:
>>>>"Peter Alaca"wrote:
>>>>> Eric Stevens wrote:
>>>>>> "Peter Alaca" wrote:
>>>>>>> I E_Johansson wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Paul J Gans" skrev
>>>>>>>>> Peter Alaca wrote:
>
>>>>>>>>>> This is from the man's website
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> " Picture 2 Shows an Eighth century Viking smith's thongs
>>>>>>>>>> from a tool kit excavated at Lagoda, Scandinavia. "
>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this characteristic of his accuracy?
>
>>>>>>>>> Why can't an eighth century viking smith wear
>>>>>>>>> a thong if he wants to?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Perhaps he was a thong and dance man?
>
>>>>>>>> I take it that neither of you read the work that Roskilde Museum
>>>>>>>> edited the other year?
>>>>>>>> Kirpichnikov Anatoly och Nazarenko Vladimir, For tidens Staraja
>>>>>>>> Ladoga, i Vikingarnes Rusland - Staraja Ladoga og Novgorod,
>>>>>>>> Roskilde 1993
>>>>>>>> is one of the most excellent article dealing with what's found
>>>>>>>> in Staraja Ladoga.
>>>>>>>> And btw Staraja Ladoga isn't in Scandinavia. It's in Russia.
>
>>>>>>> Not "btw"! It was my sole reason to quote that,
>>>>>>> and to ask if that is characteristic of his accuracy.
>
>>>>>> What? You didn't pick up on his spelling of 'Lagoda' (Ladoga) and
>>>>>> 'thong' (tong)?
>
>>>>> No. One can make sense while misspelling.
>
>>>> Better tell that to PRD. :-)
>>>> ... or me.
>
>>>>>> You didn't even notice the URL for his website (which
>>>>>> you cited) http://www.rowbottom.dns2go.com/viking/artifacts.htm
>
>>>>> Didn't notice? I quoted from it !
>
>>>> But I had to use Google to find the actual URL.
>
>>> It was on the website posted by Dough.
>
>> I am too well bread to tell you that you have just been hoist by your
>> own petard. :-)
>
>I am not that well bread, so please tell me more.
>
>> Apart from that, I have no article from Doug which gives that URL.
>
>The startingpost of this thread started with:
>"
>http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb327021.htm
>BookSurge Proudly Announces the Publication of Vinland Discovery -
>The Unfinished Story, by Kent Budden "
>
>The bottomline of the target page is:
>" This book is now available for order from the author's website
>(www.vinlanddiscovery.com), BookSurge (www.booksurge.com),
>Amazon.com, Abebooks.com, and Alibris (www.alibris.com)."

And then you have to click on the link 'Artifacts' in the
(www.vinlanddiscovery.com) to find the text you were referring to. Not
exactly straight to the point, if you don't mind me saying so.



Eric Stevens

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