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| August 11, 2001 11:57AM |
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> Dudzik, the state archaeologist, said he doesn't believe the runestone legend, partly because early Vikings were seafaring people, plundering along coastlines. Why would they abandon that lifestyle to get to the center of a gigantic continent? ...
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Well, the pre-inca/inca civilization did master seafaring too, with large balsa rafts, but they did amazing things behind the shores too ... to say that the Vikings were seafaring people, is partly correct, they had a civilization on land too ... the Vikings conquered the rivers as well ... ok, they were good at the water sports, but ... bah!!!
I'm not sure what I do think of the Kensington Stone, since I know to less about it. But, this is a highly interesting article, and I might support the idea that Norse explorers were as far west as Minnesota, and probably further west too. Explorers don't build turfs and such ... But they might've left inscriptions, and in the 1300s there still were a Norse Greenland settlement, and they still were aware of the big land west of 'em. Hey, they had a station as far north as Thule, and whoknowwhere they'd been in a half-millennia ... Hudson Bay, St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, New England-area (Norumbega, I'm still wondering were this name for the region comes from).
The Norse never ceased to explore, it was in their nature. They've always been doing exploring. You might call it intelligence though, intelligence about their surroundings, and what to gain from it (hence their "privateering"-business ;o)).
<p><b>The Norse never abandoned their way of lifestyle to get to the center of a big continent, it was their lifestyle, period!!<//b>
<p>Yeah, way to go ...
) Paul, al-Urman</HTML>
> Dudzik, the state archaeologist, said he doesn't believe the runestone legend, partly because early Vikings were seafaring people, plundering along coastlines. Why would they abandon that lifestyle to get to the center of a gigantic continent? ...
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Well, the pre-inca/inca civilization did master seafaring too, with large balsa rafts, but they did amazing things behind the shores too ... to say that the Vikings were seafaring people, is partly correct, they had a civilization on land too ... the Vikings conquered the rivers as well ... ok, they were good at the water sports, but ... bah!!!
I'm not sure what I do think of the Kensington Stone, since I know to less about it. But, this is a highly interesting article, and I might support the idea that Norse explorers were as far west as Minnesota, and probably further west too. Explorers don't build turfs and such ... But they might've left inscriptions, and in the 1300s there still were a Norse Greenland settlement, and they still were aware of the big land west of 'em. Hey, they had a station as far north as Thule, and whoknowwhere they'd been in a half-millennia ... Hudson Bay, St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, New England-area (Norumbega, I'm still wondering were this name for the region comes from).
The Norse never ceased to explore, it was in their nature. They've always been doing exploring. You might call it intelligence though, intelligence about their surroundings, and what to gain from it (hence their "privateering"-business ;o)).
<p><b>The Norse never abandoned their way of lifestyle to get to the center of a big continent, it was their lifestyle, period!!<//b>
<p>Yeah, way to go ...
) Paul, al-Urman</HTML>
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Katherine Reece | August 11, 2001 09:55AM |
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al-Urman | August 11, 2001 11:57AM |
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al-Urman | August 11, 2001 11:58AM |
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Katherine Reece | August 11, 2001 12:11PM |
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