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...government's plans "to denationalize road haulage at the earliest possible moment." Then, step by step, the Prime Minister covered the points at issue. "He went over the same old ground," said one backbencher, "but somehow, if the Old Man took you from Piccadilly Circus to Kensington every day for a year, the trip would still be fascinating...
Your Oct. 8 article on the Kensington rune stone is interesting. More exploration for Viking evidence should be made on the west coast of Labrador...
...this river is an old one. It has few portages over 25 chains, and the trail takes one ... to the head of Lake Winnipeg, not far from the mouth of the Red River of the North, up which one was able to canoe almost to the vicinity of Kensington, Minn...
...careful Dr. Thalbitzer does not completely endorse this theory. But he does think that the Kensington Stone was condemned too quickly. "The last word," his report says, "has not yet been spoken...
King's Expedition. Dr. Thalbitzer does not pretend to know how eight Swedes and 22 Norwegians got to Minnesota in 1362. But he repeats a theory developed by Hjalmar R. Holand, a Norwegian-American who has long championed the Kensington Stone. In 1356, according to Holand, King Magnus Ericksson of Sweden and Norway sent an expedition under Powell Knutsson to see what had happened to the Norse colonies in Greenland. When they found that the colonists were dead or had moved elsewhere, Knutsson's Norsemen pushed farther west. Eventually they reached Hudson Bay, and then the Great Lakes...