[Public-List] viking ships

[dan walker]

well i for one have never read it, but picked it up from the library today. if mowatt wrote it, it has to be good
dan walker

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> From: Gordon Laco <mainstay at csolve.net>
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] viking ships
> To: gewhite at crosslink.net, "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org>
> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 5:06 PM
> Hi -
> 
> Yes, I know about that stone and it was indeed debunked,
> too bad it would have made a hell of a story.  The
> stone purported to be a relic of an expedition that came
> south from Hudson's Bay.  If I remember correctly the
> stone numbered the members of the expedition, described that
> they had left their ship several weeks march to the North...
> and ominously ended with the words "The Skraelings are
> killing us".  The Vikings called the Amerindians
> Skraelings.  (pardon my spelling..)
> 
> Ever read Farley Mowatt's 'Westviking'?
> 
> G
> 
> 
> 
> On 8-Jan-10, at 4:41 PM, gordon white wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have any information on Viking ships or
> engraved Viking stones, supposedly found in Minnesota or
> Wisconsin?  I thought those had all been de-bunked, but
> a relative out there says the Vikings did get up into the
> great lakes. (Portaged around Niagara??)
> > 
> > - gordon White, /Brigadoon II/
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