Re: The language of the KRS

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:58:09 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxx>
wrote:

>Steve Marcus wrote: 0Zsvf.60828$4l5.660@dukeread05,
>
>> "Eric Stevens" wrote
>
>>> I have been sent a video of an address given by Scott Wolter and ***
>>> Nielsen at a book-signing on Dec 10-05.
>>>
>>> *** Nielsen made an interesting comment. I didn't note the exact
>>> words but I can loosley paraphrase him as saying that according to
>>> Henrik Williams 'it is now more difficult to categorise the language
>>> of the KRS as being from the 19th century than it is to categorise it
>>> as being from the 14th century'.
>
>> Why don't you watch the video again (and again and again, if that's
>> what it takes) and reproduce the exact words, rather than loosely
>> paraphrasing the source.
>>
>> Even better, perhaps you can report the "why" behind Nielsen's
>> statement.
>
>OK, lets skip the language for a moment.
>Here is the latest:
>
>Posted: 12/28/05
>Evidence said to prove Rune Stone authentic
>By Rachel Kytonen
>http://www.isanticountynews.com/2005/December/28runestone.html
>
>Some fragments:
> The heavily-debated inscription carved on the
> Kensington Runestone [..., is authentic and
> contains an encoded prayer and a reference to
> Gral, the medieval spelling of Grail, according to
> geologist Scott Wolter.
>
> In an interview with the NEWS Monday, Dec. 26,
> Wolter said in the past two weeks it has been
> determined that within the inscription on the rune
> stone is probably an encoded prayer for the 10
> dead men whose apparent demise/deaths is
> mentioned within the inscription.
>
> "At the end of the day what we know is the rune
> stone is a land claim stone," Wolter said.
> "Obviously something tragic happened to the 10
> men on this business venture, but we don't know
> how they died. . . This information was engraved in
> the rune stone to tell us what they were doing here
> . . . and while carving in it the prayer was put in
> afterwards."
>
> The runes and the language of the Kensington
> Rune Stone are indeed medieval and could have
> been applied in the 14th century.
>
> But after the book came out, Wolter and Nielsen
> discovered in the inscription a symbol for the "holy
> spirit," that means "these ten men are with the
> holy spirit," and in the inscription where it says the
> men were "fishing," fishing most likely means
> "preaching."
>
> Wolter said it's evident that a preacher probably
> carved this prayer in the rune stone.
>
> "Based on the weathering work we did, it became
> very clear to me in my mind that the inscription
> was old and therefore, it must be genuine," Wolter
> said. "What bothered me was people didn't accept
> my results. I haven't lost a legal case yet that I
> have testified at and with all the evidence obtained,
> I found it surprising people didn't agree with my
> geologic results."
>
>So, unpublished new 'evidence'.
>That will keep us going.

I don't know where you get the 'unpublished' from.



Eric Stevens

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