SC -Vikings on Nova

[allilyn at juno.com]

Nova had a wonderful show, 2 hours, on Vikings, tonight.  I missed some,
but enjoyed seeing the journey routes.  Several modern people have traced
the old routes and gotten where the Vikings said they got.  There is a
speculation that 'Vinland' has been identified.  The show can be
purchased on tape, for all you die-hard Vikings.  Lots of interviews with
archeologists, tape of re-creationists, at L'Anse aux Meadows, for
example.  Includes the 'Rus' and their trading journings and settlement
of Russia, especially Kiev.  Seems very well done, and duplicates
information I've gotten from the better resources.

Regards,
Allison,     allilyn at juno.com


On Mon, 8 May 2000 14:14:45 +0200 (MET DST) Par Leijonhufvud
<parlei at algonet.se> writes:
>On Mon, 8 May 2000, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
>> Wreckage can travel great distances underwater with submerged 
>currents.
>> Regardless of whether this was a hoax or an anomaly, what it was 
>_not_
>> was evidence of Roman trade with the [as yet undiscovered??] new 
>world.
>> As with later Viking longships that are suppsed to have gone to all
>
>Correction: it was the knarr that did most of the long distance
>transport, including the transatlantic journeys. A shorter, fuller 
>ship
>with much better deep sea behaviour. The longship was a costal 
>"racer",
>and the crews knew the difference. The first was designed to transport
>stuff in places like the north atlantic, while the second was used to
>deliver armed crew in the target context as fast as possible. 
>
>/UlfR
>
>-- 
>Par Leijonhufvud                                      
>parlei at algonet.se
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>the
>Sirius Cybernetic Corporation. Considering that my attempts at using 
>Word
>always resulted in something almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a 
>document.
>		-- Rich Kaszeta 
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