Martin H. Eastburn wrote:

Inger E Johansson wrote:

Martin H,
if you have Viking blood in you is irrelevant to the fact that the valuble
coconut bowl only was one of two known coming from the New World in Pre
Columbian days.
Or do you believe your proven(?) Viking genes make a difference on that
fact?

Inger E


I suspect the coconut might be some off a tree or less that floated north
on the great Gulf stream that flows north from areas that Coconuts grow
past Iceland and Greenland and France and .... back home again.

This is like the shoes and balls that float around the pacific being
released by a heavy storm upon a ship.

Consider the storms that smash into the Atlantic islands, and the U.S.
that could make this viable.

All it takes is one creative mind. Then one is done.

Martin

It might have been carried by two African swallows, gripping the husk in
their feet...
--
John S Wilkins PhD - www.wilkins.id.au
a little emptier, a little spent
as always by that quiver in the self,
subjugated, yes, and obedient. -- Seamus Heaney