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Re: Challenge for naysayers of the Kensington Runestone

Subject: Re: Challenge for naysayers of the Kensington Runestone
From: Paul Burke
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:05:20 +0100
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology, soc.culture.nordic, soc.history.medieval
Alaca wrote:

The vikings dragged their boats, too, to bypass obstacles. There is a
place on the British isles where the ships heading for Iceland or
Ireland were dragged over land (according to a TV documentary I saw).
[...]

There are quite a lot of such places in Scotland, the Orkneys and the Hebrides. Look for the place name Tarbert which is very common and always situated on a narrow strip of land between two sea inlets, or between the sea and a freshwater loch.

Paul Burke

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