Re: The Newport Tower - some reflections, and a question

bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx <bogart.lloy@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Alan Crozier wrote:


None of this means that the windmill in Newport was built by the
Norse of course. To have had a windmill they would have had to have
settlers in Rhode Island, which they did not.

Alan

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Eric Stevens wrote:

... "I am surprised you have to ask why 'they' ignore it. Theodorik's
mausoleum has only a passing similarity to the Newport Tower."


Ah, but what if one of the Goths mentioned
on the KRS was, in fact, an Italo-Goth who'd
originated from Ravenna, and who after wandering
back out of the American midwestern Minnesota
wilderness, found himself on the East Coast, and
once there convinced his comrades to build an
'Homage' to the great edifice remembered from
his home town, as a memorial to those killed?

It would necessarily be primitive...

And though they were used to carry a heavy
stone slab around on their vojages, a massive
stone roof was too much to handle.

What about that, EH? It all fits! it ws the
GOTHS, I tell you, NOT the Vikings...

I don' need no steenking evidence! Bwa Ha Ha!

(you'll understand why I cannot bring myself to
post this to Sci.Arch ;-)

Lloyd
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