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I placed a mark on a Google Earth view of North America. I put the mark where I thought Norse Christians settled in the 12th century and …
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Zillion
to one. There were no Norse Christians in America in the 12th century.
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I have documentation from four different
groups of authorities in the 11th and 12th centuries. One of those authorities wrote that the Norse were near an "Ocean discovered by many."
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The only ocean beyond the Atlantic would have been the Pacific or maybe he meant Hudson Bay?
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He may have meant Hudson Bay, which was shown on French maps as "Mer Christian" until the 18th century. There is physical evidence that their documentation was an accurate account of past events. Assume I am correct and ...
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The only ocean beyond the Atlantic would have been the Pacific or maybe he meant Hudson Bay?
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He may have meant Hudson Bay, which was shown on French maps as "Mer Christian" until the 18th century. There is physical evidence that their documentation was an accurate account of past events. Assume I am correct and ...
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And?
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And calculate the odds of me placing a place mark
within ten miles of a 14th century Norse artifact that I did not know was there.
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.You
placed a mark on a Google image of North America, where you thought 12th
century Norse Christians might have been. There was a 14th Century Norse
artifact within ten miles?
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What
are the odds?
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The
realistic odds are now two zillion to one. Neither the Norse Christians
nor the Norse artifact were in North America then. But the hypothetical
odds to your delusional proposition are 188,000 to one.
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How
did you calculate the odds that fast?
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Easy.
North America has 9,400,000 square miles. An area of 50 square miles
has a hypotenuse of ten miles. So if you put your mark in any
area of 50 square miles and if there was a Norse artifact in that area, the
area would be one out of 188,000 such areas in North America. .
How
could you get it in your simple skull that the Norse Christians and the Norse
artifact were where you placed the mark?
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You
and I have different paradigms. My paradigm is that many boats came to
ancient American from many places at many different times.
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I
cannot understand how someone, like you, who depends on the logic of numbers,
can believe the Eurocentric Myth that not one boat landed in North America
before the European invasion?
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The
European Myth, as you call it, has to be correct. We all learned that in
school. Scholars would not allow a myth to be repeated in history books
if it were not true.
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Perhaps
you are too trusting of scholars. I learned in my youth that paper is a funny thing. The
paper just lies there. Scholars can write lies on paper. Most students read the paper and believe the lies to be
true.
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Why
would scholars lie?
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Why
would a thief write that nobody was home, when, in fact, he killed the family
and moved in over their dead bodies?
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A
thief could not get away with that.
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Thieves
did get away with it because the nearest authority was 3,000 miles away -- in
England. The thieves' stories were easy to believe in England. The
historians had already conned the people of England to believe that there were
only a few pagan natives in the New World.
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So, you say, the historians, back home in England, recorded the thieves’ lies because they reinforced the growing Eurocentric Myth? You have favorable odds for that statement.
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Then the English historians entrenched the Eurocentric Myth by printing it in the history books. Every scholar for four centuries has re-written the Myth as the gospel truth.
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So, you say, the historians, back home in England, recorded the thieves’ lies because they reinforced the growing Eurocentric Myth? You have favorable odds for that statement.
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Then the English historians entrenched the Eurocentric Myth by printing it in the history books. Every scholar for four centuries has re-written the Myth as the gospel truth.
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The
first Europeans, who came to America, came from war-ravaged Europe, where Protestants
and Catholics were slaughtering each other. Then the European Christians did not
behave as we think, now, that Christians have always behaved.
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What are the odds the paper, which the invaders of America wrote upon, was an accurate account of past events.
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What are the odds the paper, which the invaders of America wrote upon, was an accurate account of past events.
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When
you phrase it like that, the odds against an accurate account of events would
have been very high. One of the first European actions was the Catholics
massacring hundreds of Protestants.
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Then
the Protestants returned to massacre the Catholics. Nice time in the New
World, huh? We rarely see that episode in school history books. The
historians have a hard time fitting those actual events into the Eurocentric
Myth.
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They
also have a hard time fitting the 12th century Norse Christians--the
"family" that was home in America-- into the Eurocentric Myth.
So they leave it out.
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The paradigm of many boats coming to America from many places at many different times has better odds of being correct than no single boat arriving ahead of the invasion.
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The paradigm of many boats coming to America from many places at many different times has better odds of being correct than no single boat arriving ahead of the invasion.
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Well,
maybe. But there is no evidence. You got to have evidence.
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Seven years ago I recorded the evidence of Norse Christians in America. I counted 129 Norse artifacts from 26 different states and provinces in North America.
.What do you think the odds are now?
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Wait a minute! You knew the area was not the whole of North America. Define the area better.
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Norse
artifacts have been found in an area from the outer banks of North Carolina to
the Iowa-Nebraska border, then the boundary angles northwest to the Arctic Ocean,
then east to Baffin Island, southeast to Labrador, and back to the outer
banks. Do not bother to calcite that area; it is about 2,800,000 square
miles.
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Which
lowers your odds to 56,000 to one for one artifact. If
129 artifacts were randomly distributed in that area, your odds would
be 434 to one.
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Still high odds, but not formidable, But you say you recorded 129 artifacts. You must have known about the Norse artifact near where you placed the mark, didn't you?
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Still high odds, but not formidable, But you say you recorded 129 artifacts. You must have known about the Norse artifact near where you placed the mark, didn't you?
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I
was recording data from many references. Unless the artifacts seemed to
be duplicates, I did not pay attention to where they were found. So I do
have the Norse artifact listed in my compilation.
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But, seven years later, when I was calculating the location of Wynland of West, I did not remember the artifact was in my old compilation. I was not even thinking of my list of Norse artifacts, when I placed the mark..
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But, seven years later, when I was calculating the location of Wynland of West, I did not remember the artifact was in my old compilation. I was not even thinking of my list of Norse artifacts, when I placed the mark..
At
434 to one, you were still very lucky.
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Your odds
are less than I thought they would be, but I like to think that finding a Norse
artifact within ten miles of where I placed the mark was more than luck.
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What
do you mean?
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The
Kensington Stone, which was found in the 19th century, had text about men traveling
14 days to ships waiting for them.
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You
mean the Kensington Rune Stone?.
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The
Kensington Stone only has a few runes on it. The text is mostly 14th
century Swedish. Anyway, while I was preparing for Norway Day in San
Francisco, I went back to check some dates in a book written by Tornoe, a
Norwegian historian.
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I
noticed a section on Greenland that I had not remembered reading before.
Tornoe quoted a Pope in 1160, who wrote to the Archbishop in Trondheim,
Norway. The Pope wrote about his concern for the Christians beyond
Greenland that were 12 days or more away from any other Norwegians..
You
thought that "14 days to ships" and "12 days to Norwegians"
might refer to the same journey?
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I
had a hunch they did because I had learned during the past three years that the
time from the Kensington Stone to Fargo-Moorhead was about two days by a crew
in a crew rowed boat.
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A
crew rowed boat? Are you talking about a large canoe with the paddlers
moving in rhythm?
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A
large canoe could have been used. But I visualize a narrow, long boat
looking more or less like the narrow Viking Dragoon Ships. So, if two
days of rowing got the crews to Fargo-Moorhead, which was 12 days away from
Norwegians in Hudson Bay, what are the odds?
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About
the two trips of 12 days to Hudson Bay, where friends would have been, being the same trip; maybe 55 to 45. The trips do seem similar, starting from a
common place.
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In the
past three years I discovered that the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg, Red River
route to Hudson Bay had been part of the transcontinental waterway, which was built several
thousand years ago.
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Whoa,
just a cotton-picking minute! What transcontinental waterway?
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Do
you remember the Bronze Age?
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Yes,
I read about it, and no. No one remembers much about it. It ended
3,200 years ago. There are about 400 years of history missing before
people started making records again.
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During
the Bronze Age, for about a thousand years, an average of fifty ships a year
came to America so the crews could load up with pure copper, which was found
near the surface of the ground around Lake Superior.
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Fifty
ships per year for 1,000 years! Then they would have hauled away
about--110 million pounds of pure copper. That much copper would have
equipped 300, 10 thousand man armies. Is there evidence that we can bet on?
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Yes there is. Those numbers are the most
conservative estimates. The evidence can still be seen. At one time
there were 10,000 holes about 30 feet across and 30 feet deep around Lake
Superior.
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So
what do all those 50,000 ships have to do with the transcontinental waterway?
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Some very smart men figured out a way to move heavy boats,
like a Viking dragon ship, from the Red River Basin into the Mississippi River
basin. They figured out how to move the boat on water the whole
way. But sometimes the crew had to pull the boats up stream.
At
Minneapolis, on the Mississippi, they loaded the boats with copper. Then
they floated down stream to the Gulf of Mexico. Then back to Europe on
the Gulf Stream.
The transcontinental
waterway began just north of Fargo-Moorhead. When the crews made the
pulls upstream. They were able to walk though grass beside the streams.
So they could pull the boat up stream with no trees in the way.
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They
called the grassland "Wynland," which meant "fine land.".
OK, I get it. The people back in Europe, who were drinking wine every day, thought the word meant, "Vine."
OK, I get it. The people back in Europe, who were drinking wine every day, thought the word meant, "Vine."
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So
you assumed that the Norse Christians were somewhere along the Nelson River,
Lake Winnipeg, Red River route?
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Your odds are down to 35 to one, if your understanding of the ancient sources is correct.
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Your odds are down to 35 to one, if your understanding of the ancient sources is correct.
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Why did the Norse
Christians settle so far from the shore of Hudson Bay?
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The
land between Fargo-Moorhead and Hudson Bay is like a giant swamp. Even
now the few people near the mouth of the Nelson River are called Swampy Cree.
Not many people can live in swamps.
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My
friend, Steve Hilgren, who lives in western Minnesota, says that the Norse
artifacts are found above a terrain feature called "Herman
Beach." Herman MN is at an elevation of 330 meters.
Fargo-Moorhead is at an elevation of about 270 meters.
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So,
if the Norse Christians were along the Red River, the area suitable for
settling was on the high land to the east. Now
your odds are down to 18 to one. Did you, by any chance, have other
information I do not know?
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I
went back to read the 11th century authority, Adam de Bremen.
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Was
he the "Vineland" guy? Every authority and his kids have been
searching for "Vineland" and not finding anything that I would bet
on.
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That is part of the reason I started with your proposition a zillion to one odds. Now you, devious devil, you got me to calculating that 50,000 ships would carry110 million pounds. I think those odds are reasonable, when we think about 50 ships a year for 1000 years.
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That is part of the reason I started with your proposition a zillion to one odds. Now you, devious devil, you got me to calculating that 50,000 ships would carry110 million pounds. I think those odds are reasonable, when we think about 50 ships a year for 1000 years.
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Then the amount of nothing in 10,000 holes could have been where 110 million pounds of copper could have come from..
Was the "Vineland" in western Minnesota?
Then the amount of nothing in 10,000 holes could have been where 110 million pounds of copper could have come from..
Was the "Vineland" in western Minnesota?
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There are wine grapes in Minnesota, along with 18 other wild berries that could have made wine.
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Adam de Bremen wrote about "Vinland." Translators in America from the 17th and 18th centuries wrote the "Vin" syllable as "Wyn" in America. "Wyn" means, "fine, smooth, cleared." The key word is "fine."
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Adam de Bremen wrote about "Vinland." Translators in America from the 17th and 18th centuries wrote the "Vin" syllable as "Wyn" in America. "Wyn" means, "fine, smooth, cleared." The key word is "fine."
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All
that definition does is confirm that the grassland in western Minnesota may
have been the fine land where the Norse Christians may have settled. Does
not change the odds.
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But
the confirmation made me feel more positive. Adam de Bremen wrote more
words about a self-seeding grain than he did about vines.
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Self-seeding
grain? You mean like wild rice?
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I
thought so. So I went back to check the odd pictograph 3.9 in the oldest
American history. It shows the younger brothers slithering through reeds
that might be wild rice.
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Then, when I looked at a map of western Minnesota, I noticed something I had not paid attention to before.
Then, when I looked at a map of western Minnesota, I noticed something I had not paid attention to before.
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What
was that?
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There
is a Wild Rice River on the east side of the Red River just north of the
Buffalo River. The Buffalo River was the northern entry of the
transcontinental water way.
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The Kensington Stone has the words from "Vinland of West" on it. Wynland of West might have been on the high ground north and east of the Buffalo River mouth near the Wild Rice River.
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The Kensington Stone has the words from "Vinland of West" on it. Wynland of West might have been on the high ground north and east of the Buffalo River mouth near the Wild Rice River.
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Now
you are down to about 9 to one odds..
Probably
less than that. I knew Holand had found two Norse Artifacts on the Red
River near that location. You calculated the odds assuming an even
distribution of artifacts across northeast America.
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But I know that Minnesota had an unusually high number. I had counted up to 26. Steve Hilgren has found more than five more.
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But I know that Minnesota had an unusually high number. I had counted up to 26. Steve Hilgren has found more than five more.
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Oh!
You have not dealt me all the cards. Now I am thinking that If you did NOT find a Norse
artifact, you would have been going against the odds.
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I chose the land to the south of the south fork of the
Wild Rice River. The elevation is higher than 330 meters. I placed
my mark and then turned on the place names feature in Google Earth. There
are five, or more, towns nearby with Norse names: Ulen, Ogema, Hitterdal,
Waubun, Mahnomen, and, maybe, Syre.
.Wait a cotton-picking minute. You are trying to tell me those names have endured for over 600 years?
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About 15 to 25 percent of the names in northeast America are Norse. They are usually found on the small towns back from the main roads. Most of the states and provinces in northeast America have Norse names.
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I think the historical process may have been that the invaders named the important places to show that the land was theirs. But the names of the small villages probably endured because whoever wandered into a village may have asked, "What do you call this place?".
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Sounds like unreliable information to me..
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Look. The defenders of the Eurocentric Myth seem to find a way smear the authenticity of any Norse artifact. In this case the artifact was a ancient sword dug up by a plow. Eurocentric minds said that similar swords were used by the French in the 18th century.".
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Newer artifacts used somewhere else do not change the odds that an ancient artifact may be very old..
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The origin of the sword was with the Roman Gladiators before the 5th century.
.Wait a cotton-picking minute. You are trying to tell me those names have endured for over 600 years?
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About 15 to 25 percent of the names in northeast America are Norse. They are usually found on the small towns back from the main roads. Most of the states and provinces in northeast America have Norse names.
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I think the historical process may have been that the invaders named the important places to show that the land was theirs. But the names of the small villages probably endured because whoever wandered into a village may have asked, "What do you call this place?".
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Sounds like unreliable information to me..
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Look. The defenders of the Eurocentric Myth seem to find a way smear the authenticity of any Norse artifact. In this case the artifact was a ancient sword dug up by a plow. Eurocentric minds said that similar swords were used by the French in the 18th century.".
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Newer artifacts used somewhere else do not change the odds that an ancient artifact may be very old..
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The origin of the sword was with the Roman Gladiators before the 5th century.
The Vikings were in half of Italy and in France in
the 11th century. The odds are very high that the prototype of the French
sword came ashore in the 11th century in s Viking boat..
But the Eurocentric minds do not care to investigate further. The bogus French reference is enough for them to remove the Viking Sword from serious evaluation.
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But in 1940 Reider T. Sherwin wrote on page 135 that "Ogema" means "high man" in Old Norse. The Ogema web page shows that the Chippewa said "Ogema" meant "Chief." Those statements are solid testimony from two different sources. The testimonies are harder to defeat.
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They can be ignored. Words do not mean a thing. right?
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This double testimony is more valuable than one contested Norse artifact. Still the Norse sword had been found where I predicted there would be a Norse artifact..
But the Eurocentric minds do not care to investigate further. The bogus French reference is enough for them to remove the Viking Sword from serious evaluation.
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But in 1940 Reider T. Sherwin wrote on page 135 that "Ogema" means "high man" in Old Norse. The Ogema web page shows that the Chippewa said "Ogema" meant "Chief." Those statements are solid testimony from two different sources. The testimonies are harder to defeat.
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They can be ignored. Words do not mean a thing. right?
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This double testimony is more valuable than one contested Norse artifact. Still the Norse sword had been found where I predicted there would be a Norse artifact..
Ah,
but you used the testimony to pick your mark.
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No,
I did not. I put a place mark on the Google Earth image without the place
names turned on. Then, after I learned that the five of the towns might
have Old Norse names, I began to examine the town data on the Internet. .
I contacted people in Ulen, MN first. I was hoping to find someone in Ulen who would write me an email about Norse artifacts in the area. While I was waiting for an answer I searched the Internet further and found the web site for the Viking Sword.
I contacted people in Ulen, MN first. I was hoping to find someone in Ulen who would write me an email about Norse artifacts in the area. While I was waiting for an answer I searched the Internet further and found the web site for the Viking Sword.
The Viking Sword?"
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The
sword was found within 10 miles of my place mark. What are the odds of
that!
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Odds,
Hell. Now I see why you call our history "the Eurocentric Myth."
You figured out where to put your mark by believing testimony and
evidence that has been in plain sight for centuries.
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Your mark landed in a nest of five or more Norse names and within 10 miles of a Norse artifact! There are no odds for just good historical research..
Your mark landed in a nest of five or more Norse names and within 10 miles of a Norse artifact! There are no odds for just good historical research..
This
episode clearly illustrates that the odds against historians re-writing early American history to
include historical evidence and testimony must be terribly high.
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About a zillion to one.
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About a zillion to one.
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