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

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...

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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