On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 14:59:21 +0100, Doug Weller
wrote:

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 13:37:00 GMT, Inger E Johansson wrote:

"Fridrik Skulason" skrev i meddelandet
m...
"Inger E Johansson" wrote in message
...

export of silver on at least one ship F R O M Iceland in 1430's?
Definitely
not from the Old World.

Why not ?

It was to be delivered to the Old World!

Someone could have found some silver buried in pre-christian times,
or perhaps the silver just arrived in Iceland through trade - and
was eventually traded back.

Fridrik,
please write a line to Eric S. I am sure he thinks that you can be trusted
with confidential Icelandic information.

Eric, why is this confidential?

Inger is referring to a source of which I made recent mentoin in
Message-ID:

My source is confident of the conclusoin but I have no real idea why.
I have a document written in Danish which might throw some light on
the subject but I am not able to eother read it or give a copy to
someone who can. Most frustrating.

I am tired of all this secrecy.

I live with it every day. I have written many long technical reports
of which I am not able to say a word. I am aware there are others who
subscribe to sci.archaeology who are in the same situation, if not
necessarily for the same reasons.




Eric Stevens