From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 12/17/2024 4:02 PM, bill wrote:
> On 12/17/2024 2:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/17/2024 8:11 AM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
>>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:24:37 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
>>>  wrote:
>>>> On 2024-12-14, Subcommandante XDelta  wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:24:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> PS: We know the VMS ecosystem will be well and truly dead when
>>>>>> someone
>>>>>> like Arne comes along and says he's not updating his website any more
>>>>>> because there's no point. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Arne will be the last Yorkshireman standing. :-)
>>>>
>>>> $ set response/mode=good_natured
>>>>
>>>> Arne is not from God's Own County. He is from a rather boring country
>>>> called Denmark. :-)
>>>
>>> Those Danes get sround. :-)
>>
>> The vikings traveled far:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#/media/File:Vikings-Voyages.png

> Well, they made it at least as far as what is now Minnesota on North
> America.  That's 1400 miles overland.

The scientific consensus is that the Kensington Runestone is a
forgery and that the vikings did not get to Minnesota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone

But it is a good story. And I suppose people in Minnesota
like the story. And besides "When the legend becomes fact,
print the legend". :-)

Arne

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