Re: "Greenland": Erik the Red a LIAR?!?!?!

Hatunen <hatunen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:41:29 +0100, per@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Per Rønne)
wrote:

Hatunen <hatunen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:19:10 -0500, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Per wrote on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:13:28 +0100:

Because they never did reach Minnesota. BTW, the Kensington
rune stone is written in modern Swedish, not in Old Norse or
Icelandic. It was found on a farm owned by a Swedish
immigrant, in an area with many Swedish immigrants.

This means that the one responsible for the forgery isn't
necessarily the farmer. Swedish kids might have staged a
practical joke with him as the victim ...

I didn't think any serious historian would maintain otherwise.

I understood the farmer was familiar with runes.

Runes are just Roman letters adopted to writing them in wood and stone,
and with just a few extra letters for phonems not known in Latin.

That doesn't mean a typical farmer would know much about them,
but the farmer in question was , I believe, of Norwegian descent.

No, Swedish.

Some of the runic characters bear a sort of resemblance to Latin
letters, but not many. See the rune chart at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune

Nevertheless, they were based on the Roman alphabet. BTW, every
Scandinavian and Icelander knows the Rumes - by archaologists called the
"futhark" after the first six letters. The third letter is thorn,
similar to Greek theta, and in the Latin alphabet written as "th".
--
Per Erik Rønne
http://www.RQNNE.dk
.

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