Posted on 12/05/2007 10:25:39 PM PST by WesternCulture
The discovery of two massive Viking halls in Borre in Vestfold County gives archeologists reason to reassess the distribution of power in Viking Norway.
Vestfold County archeologists presented finds on Wednesday that show there are two great hall buildings underneath the ground about 100 meters from the major burial mounds at Borre.
(Excerpt) Read more at aftenposten.no ...
I tink you left out “bosomy” & “beautiful”, ya
Actually, there is such evidence. I don’t know of any evidence for having those placenames in NW North America though.
Yeah? Who did they play?
Interesting.
No there isn’t, though no one can stop the pseudohistories from seeing elephants in the clouds like this map-making fellow and his chart across Canada.
"New Thinking on the "Mooring Stone" Theory
"By mapping out all the stoneholes by means of GPS and mapping ITom the land conservation mapping service. It becomes quite clear: we have many different elevations. Could the water have gone up-down up-down, or the land the same? In my[Judy Rudebusch] study area we have over 100 feet difference in elevation in 7 miles- that made me wonder if all the stoneholes had the same purpose."
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"Now, where do we go to find these old land markers? In reading Kirsten Seaver's book "The Frozen Echo" I found references to land given in a marriage dowery in the early 1400's in Greenland. The dowery consisted of land in Greenland and Iceland. (Chapter 6- Diplomataruim Islandicom 3: no. 398). I had Valdimar, who could read the old Icelandic, research the old diplomas concerning land boundaries and their stones markers. He found many references. As to the original wording in Icelandic - festar haell - he looked primarily for this. It seems that the later years of 1390's, they were establishing the "old" boundary markers.
In the Diploma about Einar Thrashi - Book III, letter number 397, dated1392 - reads, "below the farm there is a stake *haell-stake* and-Horn the long pond south" . . ... now this land of total volcanic rock-where else would you put a stake if you meant it to stay there? Jon Dauson's book also tells of this way of marking land, plus a book written after "Gragas", "Jonsbook" tells in its land settlement chapter *pg.153* of these stones, rivers, streams, mountains and other natural setting to be used in land division.
So, how do we frnd these ancient Icelandic marking stones and possibly connect them to our tri-shaped hole stones? Valdimar went walking- but not looking for his cairns- but for these stoneholes. He started by looking for stones used in the old diploma farm sites. Would we find stones with triangular shaped holes- YES. (fig. 29-39) At two different Southwestern Icelandic sites, one ca. 1250-1400, he found them.
As these frnds are just now evolving and being researched (September -05), we are excited by the prospect that these stoneholes we have here in the U.S.- and other places that are clearly high above or away from today's lakes and streams- may be connected. We may be able to show a time honored way of marking ones "spot" in the world by using a very common symbol to the earliest Icelander or Scandinavian explorer- A HOLE IN A ROCK."
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