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discovered America. So they say. But what of Leif Ericsson What of St, Brendan Who inscribed that anguished message on the Kensington Rune Stone And who was The Westford Knight We are sure that Columbus made it to San Salvador and back.
And the Icelandic Saga shores up faith in Leif Ericsson's voyage to North America, although scholarly opinion of the Vinland map seems to change everyyears or so.
St. Brendan's adventure has been pretty generally dismissed as mere myth as if myth could not be rooted in truth, And the case of the Kensington Rune Stone continues to generate controversy, despite an impressive accumulation of evidence, both environmental and linguistic, And then there is the Westford Knight, In, the late Frank Glynn uncovered the figure of a knight in full armor incised on a slab of glacial rock along a roadside in Westford, Massachusetts.
The Knight's helmet, sword and shield all date to a specific decade in the evolution of armor and arms, And the emblem on the shield represents the armorial bearings of Clan Gunn, a noble family based in Scotland's County Caithness, The figure is, in fact, a classic military effigy, a type of monument commonly found in ancient gravesites in Scotland and in the north of England.
So what was the Knight doing here Facts cited in this little book suggest that The Westford Knight sailed westward with his highborn kinsman, Henry Sinclair, baron of Rosslyn and Earl of Orkney, in the service of The Lady King.
The author presents the THESE STONES BEAR WITNESS, The verdict is for the reader to decide, Richard White is the author of many acclaimed histories, including the groundbreaking study of the transcontinentals, Railroaded, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
the Francis Parkman Prize, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
He is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University, and lives near Palo Alto, California, .