Attached are two articles in Mercator's World magazine that discuss exploration of the Hudson's Bay area. The discussions is not directly germaine to our ...
By curious coincidence, I have just finished the second draft of an article for Journal of the West in which I reference both of the above articles. Just over ...
This is great news, I look forward to reading the article.<br><br>As I start to reserach this deeper, I am finding a wealth of information that when linked...
Geir,<br><br>Perhaps you cold invite your correspondent in Minnesota to join this discussion group and contribute what she has learned with regard to the...
In reading one these recent articles I was puzzled in that before the winter before the Western settlement was abandoned, they were so hungry that they ate ...
Geir,<br><br>You said "but there are no evidence that he left Norway."<br><br>I suppose the only way to prove that he left Norway would be to find his grave ...
The Viking grave found from Ontario is most likely<br>the found of an axe, sword and chain-mail.<br>The artifacts are in the Royal Ontario Museum.<br>Some days...
I have the final (hopefully) draft of the article I am writing for Journal of the West done and stored on the web. As I am not sure how publicly posting it...
This past weekend I received the companion volume to the Smithsonian Exhibition on vikings titled Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga (ed by William Fitzhugh and...
It has come to my attention that there will be<br>a meeting Saturday, May 6th at 12:30 p.m.<br>It will be held at the Starbuck Elementary<br>School.<br>Gil...
"Holand kept the stone, (even carving his intials into it)"<br><br>12. Minor point, but Holand only carved one letter, an 'H', which he later claimed was for...
"The governors of the Minnesota Historical Society concluded that the <br>inscription was in all probability a fake and that Ohman was probably the ...
I'm sorry to hear that you can't make it.<br>Considering the presentation that you made <br>at the library, this would have been just <br>your cup of tea....
"Ohman... had been seen carving runes on sticks during his early years in <br>Minnesota"<br><br>32. There is no first hand report of this - one second hand ...
In my analysis, I have tried to limit myself to such errors in the piece which are verifiably incorrect. In most cases, the correct information is given in...
The Smithsonian, as publisher and editor of this piece must bear some of the responsibility as well. Perhaps it was just misplaced trust in the author(s), but ...
Michael..<br><br> I have been so busy lately that I have been slow to catch up with all this but my thanks go to you for your work in setting this issue ...
Yes, I plan on being there. I took the day off <br>and made motel reservations.<br>I have both tape recorders up and running and<br>will ask if I can tape ...
I just noticed on the news stand that TIME has done a cover on Vikings.<br><br>In terms of North American sites, this article mentions only L'Anse Meadows, the...
I have yet to obtain any corroborating information, on this, but I continue to work on it. <br><br>With regard to the stone pillars, I have seen grave sites...
Paul Knutsson's grave wouldn't be <br>the way heathen Norse chieftains<br>was burried several hundred years <br>earlier than the mid 1300's.<br>If Paul ...
Is it conceivable, from the account given my LaVernedrye to the visiting Swedish Ambassador in Quebec in the 1740's that he had indeed found Knutson's grave, ...
A minister from Salisaw, Oklahoma has recently published a book saying that the Heavner Runestone is not Viking at all but the grave marker for the French ...
Last September, I was at the On-the-Slant village<br>in Mandan. It is part of the Fort Abraham Lincoln<br>complex. I talked to a very nice young man at<br>the ...
I have been visiting, but I don't see a lot of commenting, I hope this does not mean that we have lost interest, but rather re have been experiencing a dry ...
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