On a program on the Viking boat museum in Roskilde, Denmark, one of the museum archaeologists said the waterway there was the perfect place to sail The Sea Stallion, a reconstruction of one of the five boats brought from the mud in 1962.
The major difference
between now and when the boat was built 1,000 years ago is, the land is higher
and the sea is lower, the man said.
Wait, wait!
Aren’t the seas rising everywhere? How can Denmark be higher than it was 1,200
years ago, when we all have seen pictures of the Statue of Liberty kept dry
only by a cofferdam around the island?
Dang it !!!
ReplyDeleteI'm on vacation and you made me do research.
Now my brain hurts from reading too much ^@%!* BS global warming crap.
#1 Roskilde is inland connected to the ocean/sea by several narrow lakes and the such https://www.google.com/maps/@55.8105319,12.0214099,53974m/data=!3m1!1e3
# 2 "The Danish coastline has continually changed since the last ice age with relative subsidence in the south and uplift in the north. " https://www.jstor.org/stable/30137844
MW: Thank you for the information. I did not know of that. We are supposed to think that changes in weather and geography have occurred only since Man decided coal could be used to produce steam. Have a good rest of your vacation. And, I must say I am pleased a post of mine led someone to search something. Reminds me of my days as a newspaper reporter when a reader commented to another reporter that I was nothing but a rabble rouser. I said, "Say thanks for me next time you see him. I haven't roused a rabble in years."
ReplyDeleteI looked into it because I was curious.
DeleteIt's amazing that the ice age ended almost 12,000 years ago, and the land is still rebounding. Really, really, really shows how insignificant humans are on the planet.
"One generation passes away, and another generation comes; But the earth abides forever." Ecclesiastes 1:4. Yes, we are still rebounding.
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