lbo-talk-digest V1 #4728

/ dave / arouet at winternet.com
Sat Aug 11 11:12:09 PDT 2001


Chris Doss wrote:


> The first white child born in North America was the son of Leif Erikson in
> about 1100, if you believe the Icelandic histories.

An odd confluence of events, as I was just reading about the Kensington Runestone last night in journalist Eric Sevareid's autobiography, _Not So Wild a Dream_, and this story appeared this morning:

Kensington Runestone supporters find another carved rock

KENSINGTON, MINN. -- A team of Minnesotans who believe the famous Kensington Runestone is authentic has found a second carved rock; the groups says it might have marked the gravesite of Viking explorers in the 1300s.

http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=metro_a&slug=rune11

What is the Kensington Runestone?:

http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=metro_a&slug=runebx

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/ dave /



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