Posted on 12/02/2009 10:49:42 AM PST by americanophile
Geologist Scott Wolter wants you to forget 1492.
While you're at it, forget the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.
Forget all of it.
Forget Christopher Columbus because he wasn't the first European to visit North America and Wolter is out to prove it in his new book, "The Hooked X: The Key to the Secret History of North America."
Minnesota and the Great Lakes states play a key part in that history, Wolter said, as Vikings and Cistercian monks traveled here leaving behind inscriptions and evidence that they were here long before Queen Isabella hocked her jewels to finance the Columbian journey to the New World.
Wolter, a trained geologist, first became interested in North America's discovery by accident.
His firm - American Petrographic Services - was hired to analyze the weathering on the Kensington Runestone, a stone found by a farmer in western Minnesota in 1898 that had runic inscription on it.
For years, historians and archaeologists have argued about its authenticity. Many outside the area have claimed it was a hoax.
Yet, when Wolter, who had never heard of the stone, analyzed it in 2000, he discovered the weathering on the stone's inscription was at least 200 years old, meaning it was carved before 1700.
"I had originally told the Kensington Museum that they needed to understand that I will give you news you may not like and you'll still pay me," Wolter said.
When the testing came back, Wolter presented his findings at conferences and was asked to present it to archaeologists and historians.
"It was like I was talking to a wall," Wolter said.
He presented his scientific findings which had been reviewed by a panel of eight other certified geologists. All concluded the stone's carvings were more than 200 years old.
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Had me going to bad he had to muck it up with the Temlpars.
To me there can be no doubt that Vikings explored North America’s coastlines from Greenland or Iceland.
No? There are plenty of copper ornaments in pre-Columbian archaeological sites. The Indians mined it and cold-hammered it into shape....they just didn't smelt it. I dunno about the other metals, but it wouldn't surprise me either. The Hopewell people had a vast trade network and, apparently, the wealth to care about such things.
That said, I am open to new theories about who got here when.
Ya, the Templar thing is without evidence, but the Norse connection has been proven in places like L’Anse aux Meadows.
I’d think that any sizable number of strangers would be in Indian tales and totems.
Actually there may be some proof that Templars, or ex. Templars (after they were disbanded by Pope and fled to Scotland)made it to Massachusetts in the 1300s. The guys name was Sinclair. They did have a navy of some sort.
probably came in thru Hudson Bay when the ice was light up north .. not sure I’ve ever seen any Templar connection in that area .. tho there are a few nice high spots with great views.. used to park at ‘em as teenagers. ;-)
Always thought he was probably the coolest guy in Town...The Queen wasn't about to pass him up but she also had to get him out of town and ordered him to discover someplace different.
And that's where the phrase....Land Ho!! came from!!
Everybody hates Chris!!!
Hmmm... I thought it was solidly accepted that the vikings where here before 1492?
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I have seen the Nat Geo 2 hr show and this is the discussion of the same evidence. It is very compelling and makes a lot of sense. I think those of you who condemn or mock this should see it first. Lots of real evidence is presented by multiple sources.
I think the idea that Vikings got to North America (Canada) first has been accepted for a long time. At least as long as I’ve been around. (Disclaimer - all my grandparents were born in Norway!).
The idea that they made it all the way inland to Minnesota has been in question. Although I guess the idea that the farmer faked it seems to be ruled out now.
I think that in this, as in many other things, we have no knowlege. The more I read the more that I am aware of our ignorance.
In fact, Virginia Dare was NOT the first European child born in America. There was one born sometime about the year 1000. Forget his name. Snorri ??
I suspected Andrew Rune was at least 200 years myself but it was not due to weathering....bwahahahahaha...maybe the eyebrows are younger?/snicker.
Yes, L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland is definitely European (about A.D. 1000). I remember reading that a Norwegian coin of later date was found by archaeologists in an Indian site in Maine, indicating continuing trips by Norsemen to the New World. They didn’t necessarily get as far as Maine—the coin could have been traded between one Indian tribe and another.
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