Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

"Eric Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:50:43 -0000, "Vaughan Sanders"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Just a thought Inger, why do you think the Norse would haul their
ships
> >across Shetland, rather than risk going north directly towards
Faroe?.
> >I would think that they didn't want to risk being driven into the
Artic
> >Ocean.
>
> Which way were they travelling? East to West or vice versa? I don't
> know those waters but my guess is that under many conditions getting
> round from east to west would be very difficult and possibly
> dangerous.
>
>
>
> Eric Stevens

The re-enacting was east to west, but I'm getting a bit suspicious about
this. Portage was used to trade into Russia, but with ships that would
have probably been to small for the Ocean.

Jamie