Gavin Callaghan Wrote:
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> calonlan Wrote:
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> > There have been a number of opinions about the
> > Heavener Runestone, its presence as
> acknowledged
> > by the Indians,
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> I found a rather interesting rock with
> inscriptions on it in my hometown, in a cemetery
> in Flemingville, NY. I wrote an article about it
> for FATE magazine, Feb. 2007:
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www.fatemag.com]
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> The inscription confused me, because it seemed to
> use Latin letters, but the words were
> incomprehensible: "BoB Y DiDf". I padded out the
> article with some additional info. on the plates
> supposedly found by J. Smith in nearby Palmyra.
> After the article was printed, I received two
> letters from a FATE reader, who pointed out to me
> that the language on the Flemingville stone was
> Welsh! So isn't that interesting, a Welsh
> presence in America -post-dating the Roman
> occupation of Wales, apparently, since it's not
> runes or ogham.
Hey Gavin - my pen name (as here) is Welsh - means "A clean heart" -- also my favorite Welsh Hymn, sung during the wedding scene in "How Green Was My Valley" (Roddy Macdowell, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara) - wonderful stuff -
Maybe some Druid priests from Wales and Ireland came along to keep the Norse from cutting down all the sacred trees and making longboats out of them? LOL