Posted on 04/17/2007 2:12:55 PM PDT by NYer
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In keeping with her will, all of her research was destroyed when she passed away, including 40 years’ worth of work for a book about the many mysteries surrounding Cabot’s maligned 1498 expedition.
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What a stupid decision....
My only other copy is at work.
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Why do people do that? I think Henry Adams did the same thing - all of his notes, diaries, etc - burned at his request.
Wish she had not had all her hard work destroyed, I just don’t understand that.
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What about the Vikings? Didn’t Bishop Erickson build any churches?
I read last year on this board that they found a private chapel (perhaps it was in Greenland) dating from the 1500s. The church was designed for a Viking lady and so small that it could hold only one person. Does anyone remember that article?
I can think of only 2 reasons she would dlestroy all of her research:
1. She didn’t want anyone else to profit by using it.
2. She was not confident in the accuracy and claims of her own research.
Either way, it is a great loss to history for her to have done that, unless her papers were bogus.
It is entirely possible, and it is entirely possible North America settlements from even earlier dates will be found. The tower in Rhode Island is of unknown date and origin, but it was already old when settlers arrived. Vikings nearly certainly reached North America long before 1492. England had fish, turkeys, and corn imported from America long before 1492. And, there is that notorious Irish monk Brendan who had a magnificent mysterious journey to Louisiana. Don’t forget North Salem.
****In keeping with her will, all of her research was destroyed when she passed away, including 40 years worth of work for a book about the many mysteries surrounding Cabots maligned 1498 expedition.
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What a stupid decision....****
Such promises should be kept just as Augustus Caesar kept his promise to the poet Virgil.
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3) She did not want her work to be used to publish a book and wind up as a ‘footnote’ with someone else taking credit for her hard work — which happens far too often to live authors, let alone dead ones.
That's arguably evil.
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Such promises should be kept just as Augustus Caesar kept his promise to the poet Virgil.
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Oh, I agree. I meant that it was a stupid decision on the part of the deceased.
http://members.aol.com/bakken1/viking/vikgrn.htm
Hvalsey Church Close to the town of Qaqortoq in South Greenland lie the ruins of Hvalsey Church, which are Greenlands biggest and best-preserved ruins from the Viking period. The church was built of stone in the 14th century and measures 16 x 7 metres (52.5 x 22.75 feet). It is situated next to the ruins of a farm complex which is also from the Viking period, and thus provides a good insight into how the Norse settlers lived.
In the Vaticans annals in Rome there is a historically significant account of a wedding between Thorstein Olafsson and Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church in 1408. The records also show that the last wedding guests traveled back to Iceland in 1410. This wedding is the last written evidence of the Viking settlers in Greenland.
http://www.greenland.com/content/english/tourist/culture/the_history_of_greenland/the_viking_period/viking_period_church_ruins
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