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Re: Winter solstice information for Vinland in Hauksbok

Subject: Re: Winter solstice information for Vinland in Hauksbok
From: "Peter Alaca"
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:12:16 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Eric Stevens wrote: news:bjhf92lkel8lgbtkuvnsfj8mma621vquuq@xxxxxxx

"Alan Crozier" wrote:

It should be remembered that the same saga tells us about corpses
sitting up in bed, about two Scotsmen who could run faster than deer,
about unipeds hopping around shooting arrows. We are not obliged to
believe every single detail.

Good point. How then do we decide what to believe and what to throw
out as rubbish? Maybe it's all fiction? But maybe it isn't.

It is the same problems as with pathalogical liars.
You can't trust them, even if they tell the truth.

--
p.a.


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