Re: The Vinland Map Find Or Fraud?

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:09:35 -0000, "Vaughan Sanders"
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>"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:
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>> >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.
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>>
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>> Eric Stevens
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>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.
>

There ceratinly is evidence of portage in the American far-north. The
probably portaged with boats big enough to get there in the first
place.



Eric Stevens