Re: Hooked 'X' Runes and where they have been found.

rOn Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:33:35 +0000, "David B."
<tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
It is now more simple to
place a suitable party near Kensington in the 14th century than it is
to explain how and why some one with the requisite knowledge was in a
position to carve and plant the KRS at a more modern time.

Utter nonsense. All the "modern time" version requires is a single
Swedish person with knowledge of a slight variant on the two Larsson
runerows, and a good dictionary with historic words in, plus a
Rafn-inspired interest in old Scandinavian contacts with America (which
was one reason why so many Scandinavians travelled to America in the
mid-19th century, so there's no shortage of candidates).

As has been pointed out to you, with or without mistakes or slight
variations, the Larsson runes don't provide a complete source for all
the unusual runes on the KRS. Further, in addition to this very
specialised knowledge of 14th century runes, the people concerned
would have needed to have been Masons with time on their hands
sufficient to enable them to carve the KRS in a period at the
beginning (or even earlier) of the settlement period for the area.
Early settlers rarely have such a luxury. Further still, with or
without Rafn, their motivation had to have been such that they were
prepared to bury the stone under a tree and play no further part in
its discovery.

None of this is impossible. Without evidence to support the existence
of such a chain of causation, it is merely very improbable. There is
more evidence pointing to the presence of norse in North America in
the 14th century than there there is supporting your hypothesis.
That's why I made the statement I did.



Eric Stevens
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