Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

"hippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "William Black" wrote in message

> > There's no doubt that the 'Thorfin Karlstefni Saga' is essentially a
true
> > story.
> >
> > The map doesn't actually matter.
> >
> > The only issue is 'is it a fake'.
> >
> > That's not actually a matter that anyone but the owner of the map and
the
> > forger care about.
>
> The map is interesting in that it antedates the events of Thorfinn's Saga
by
> more than four hundred years and shows that the lands beyond Greenland
were
> not forgotten over the intervening centuries. -the Troll

So what?

We know that English fishermen were fishing off the Grand Banks throughout
the medieval period,  there's even some sort of Papal order banning landing
on the shore there.

Everyone who cared knew there was something out there,  but nobody had the
economic muscle to do anything about it until the late fifteenth century.

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William Black
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