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Danish Expert Declares Vinland Map Genuine

Posted by kdawson on from the even-now-they-walk-among-us dept.

MBCook writes "A Danish conservation expert named Rene Larsen has finished a 5-year study of the infamous Vinland Map and declared it genuine. 'All the tests that we have done over the past five years — on the materials and other aspects — do not show any signs of forgery,' he said at the press conference. He and his team studied the ink, the paper, and even insect damage. They believe that the ink, which was discovered in 1972 to contain titanium dioxide and thus supposedly was too new for the map to be genuine, was contaminated when sand was used to dry the ink."

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  1. Re:Larsen != Larson by jgrahn · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a Dane living in the UK, having a surname ending with sen, I'm proper fed up with having to spell my surname to everyone taking my name down. To me Larsen sounds Danish and Larson sounds Swedish. Sorry for rambling.

    The normal Swedish spelling is Larsson.

    Larsen is a danish or norwegian guy. Larson is a scandinavian immigrant to the US, or a swede who wants to insinuate he has more money than some random Larsson. Larzon is a swede who's in the sleazier part of the entertainment industry.

  2. Re:Larsen != Larson by Bill+Currie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't think you're the only one. Everybody thinks I'm a food. I even had the nickname MC in university. There has been maybe two times I didn't have to spell my name for somebody.

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    Bill - aka taniwha
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    Leave others their otherness. -- Aratak

  3. Re:Larsen != Larson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet they both mean exactly the same, son of Lars.

    Obviously Lars was leading a double life with a family in Sweden and a family in Denmark.