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2007-08-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-25 18:42|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Maybe not as ridiculous as it sounds. Greenland was both occupied by Norway around that time, and had a Bishop located there. So if some Knights Templar were bugging out, it would not be a big stretch to imagine them sailing all the way to the South side of the Hudson bay.

And it's a straight shot to Minnesota, between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Superior. If they brought horses with them, it would just be a matter of steering around the minefield of lakes from James Bay to Minnesota.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-25 19:07|| 2007-08-25 19:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed, but the 1523 Kiwanis vs Rotary vs Shriners war is also neglected and misunderstood

/JM

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-08-25 19:38|| 2007-08-25 19:38|| Front Page Top

#3 They traced the dotted 'R' to rune covered graves inside ancient churches on the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden.

Didn't the Swedes settle in Minnesota? Is it not possible that someone brought it from Sweden later on?

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-08-25 20:03|| 2007-08-25 20:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget The Sons of Knute.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-08-25 20:03|| 2007-08-25 20:03|| Front Page Top

#5 But he would have been believed if it had used a Microsoft Word font right?

Posted by Dan Rather 2007-08-25 20:28|| 2007-08-25 20:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Minnesota

2:1 the runes say "Try the green bean casserole."

Posted by mrp 2007-08-25 20:30|| 2007-08-25 20:30|| Front Page Top

#7 5:1 they reference the molded jello with fruit cocktail. Although, the green bean and tuna casserole cannot be ruled out ...

Posted by lotp 2007-08-25 20:56|| 2007-08-25 20:56|| Front Page Top

#8 i did not use the "L" woid, and would beg off any Swede from doing so, thank youse.

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Did yo'all ever hear the one about the Runestone Cowboy?

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-08-25 21:10|| 2007-08-25 21:10|| Front Page Top

#9

Upper Minessota has copper all over it, in the form of nuggets, but there are also very old mines. Some of them were dated to 1400 BC, based on dating of remain of wooden supports. Now, the local natives did not use copper, they stuck to stone industry. I would understand if they picked up some nuggets and used them for trade with southern tribes some of which used copper. But mining? Not their cup of coffee it was. So the question is, who the hell mined copper there 1400BC? There were some inscriptions found in the vicinity of the mines that look Phoenician. These were considered hoaxes. But were they?

Posted by twobyfour 2007-08-25 22:33|| 2007-08-25 22:33|| Front Page Top

#10 Try to remember that the Vikings explored a huge swath of turf that stretched from Russia in the eastall the way down to the Black Seaand extended into the Mediterranean and regions of North Africa, plus Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. It would have been no great shakes for them to transit the St. Lawrence and then gone across all the Great Lakes.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-25 23:01|| 2007-08-25 23:01|| Front Page Top

#11 twobyfour: People did get around. One Indian tribe in New Mexico, with a language and art very different from the typical in that region, was found to have some genetic traits common with ancient Japanese. Only after they found that out did they realize that their art looks a lot like primitive Japanese art.

And down in South America, archaeologists were startled to find poured metal brackets between large construction stones, to hold them together. At first they realized that this meant the society was far more advanced then they thought, having to have had portable bellows furnaces. But then they tested the alloy used, and found that it was almost the same as one used by the Egyptians for that same purpose.

And the odds of duplicate alloys independently achieved are minuscule. There are just too many variables, unless you are using the same recipe.

To make matters even weirder, this same ancient city had a solar observatory that was wrong. Its solstice points were outside of where they were supposed to be. Then one of the archaeologists realized that the Earth's axis shifts have been slowly decreasing for eons.

Calculating out when that solar observatory would have been accurate, they estimated that it had been so about 12,000 years ago.

Finally, a couple of genetic discoveries, one in a small tribe in South Africa. That their ancestors had been from the Jewish Priestly tribe whose home was in Yemen. Their mythology even retained the approximate name of the city of their origin, which still exists in Yemen, and the name of the guy who led them out of there in the manner of Moses.

The other is a village in China that looks somewhat Caucasian, and claim to be descended from some of Alexander the Great's army. They may actually be.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-25 23:40|| 2007-08-25 23:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Moose__ going back to the original story.... there has always been a lot of controversy about the Mandan indians in the upper midwest. Grey eyes, reddish hair, dwellings that look like Norse huts and an apparent shaman's lodge roughly shaped like a longship. Of course, they all died out in the early 1800's due to smallpox and you'd think anyone decended from Europeans would have retained a bit more resistance to the disease....

Posted by Prince Madoc 2007-08-25 23:54|| 2007-08-25 23:54|| Front Page Top

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