Opþagelsefärd-- Could this Old Swedish word have a double meaning------"RECORDING/MAPPING journey"
Portolan Chart
from Duluth Harbor to the start of the Minnesota River
from Wahpeton, N.D. to Chicago Portage to Des Plains River
from Mackinac Isthmus to start of Red River (Bois de Sioux)
the center of this compass rose is the KRS site!
Solstices & Equinoxes for Minneapolis (1350—1399)
8 : göter : ok : 22 : norrmen : po :
...o : opþagelsefärd : fro :
vinland : of : vest : vi :
...o : opþagelsefärd : fro :
vinland : of : vest : vi :
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| (word-for-word): Eight Götalanders and 22 Northmen on (this?) acquisition journey from Vinland far to the west. |
opþagelsefärd
"opþagelsefärd " which is an Old Swedish word meaning "acquisition business, or taking up land."
http://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:543322/FULLTEXT01.pdf by Henrik Williams
opþagelse färd-- Could this word also mean
"recording/mapping journey "
The word "opþagelsefärd " which is an Old Swedish word meaning "acquisition business, or taking up land.”
Could this Old Swedish word have a double meaning?
"optagelse färd "- in current Swedish the meaning is “ recording journey” or “mapping journey”
Here is link to " Google Translate” -----Swedish to English
Making a Chart or Map in 1362 A.D.
Rhumb lines - used in Portolan Charts
A ‘rhumb line’ (or loxodrome) is a path of constant bearing, which crosses all meridians at the same angle.
Sailors used to (and sometimes still) navigate along rhumb lines since it is easier to follow a constant compass bearing than to be continually adjusting the bearing, as is needed to follow a great circle. Rhumb lines are straight lines on a Mercator Projection map (also helpful for navigation).
Rhumb lines are generally longer than great-circle (orthodrome) routes. For instance, London to New York is 4% longer along a rhumb line than along a great circle – important for aviation fuel, but not particularly to sailing vessels. New York to Beijing – close to the most extreme example possible (though not sailable!) – is 30% longer along a rhumb line.
(map above) from start of the Minnesota River ➼over the two of the KRS➼ to Duluth Harbor
(reverse)from Duluth Harbor to start of the Minnesota River - Heading 70° 43' 58"
- Note: In the 2 green maps above -the 2 red lines intersect at the KRS Site
- all Google Maps used with permissions
all navigation maps created at this website.
- (Map Above) From Duluth Harbor to KRS - Heading 250.6° traveling 298km
- (Map Below)1895 Map by- Woolman, Albert J.
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| 1895 Map by- Woolman, Albert J. (1895) Report upon ichthyological investigations in western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota, (Note; before current Dams) |
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| Same Map as the 1895 Map above by- Woolman, Albert J. but in current Google Earth. From Duluth harbor ➸over the top of KRS site ➸to the start of the Minnesota River-Heading 250.6° |
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| (Map Above)Heading 270° from the KRS hits Lake Traverse or (start of Bois de Sioux river) in this 1918 USGS map. |
Portolan Charts
Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Sea Ca. 1320 to 1350: Manuscript Chart of the Mediterranean and Black Seas on Vellum. [13--?, 1320] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
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- Note; The accuracy of this map c. 1320/1350 A.D. It was created in the same era as the KRS using Rhumb lines and compass rose.
- Note; The boot of Italy and Sardinia.
- Note; The Distance scale in the middle/left.
- Rhumb Lines
- 1489 Portolan Chart, Albino de Canepa, Cartographer
The rhumb lines on the map could be followed to navigate a vessel at sea; the grid made from them could be used to copy this portolan chart. [For more detailed circles in separate windows, click on the images.]
- https://www.lib.umn.edu/apps/bell/map/PORTO/INTRO/intro2.html
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- Were the travelers in c. 1362 A.D. at the Kensington site mapping this unknown
- continent?or were they working off a map that was found in the Mediterranean/Levant?
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The beginning of the Minnesota River @ the top of Bigstone Lake and the start of the Red River- Red River North goes to Hudson Bay. Access to the Mississippi River and Great Lakes is at the bottom of Lake Michigan and the (Chicago Portage and Calumet Portage.)
Wahpeton, North Dakota
The Bois de Sioux River and the Otter Tail River join at Wahpeton and Breckenridge to form the Red River of the North.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahpeton,_North_Dakota
Au-train (Whitefish Cannel) mouth of the Escanaba River.
http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/autrain-whitefish.html
Big Stone Lake-
Big Stone Lake is the source of the Minnesota River, which flows 332 miles (534 km) to the Mississippi River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stone_Lake
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Portage Park, IL - Chicago- at Lake Michigan shoreline
The top Rhumb Line goes rite over the Indian Village and ancient Portage from Lake Michigan to Des Plains River. (W. Irving Park Blvd.)
The Chicago Portage - Historical Synopsis
The geographical relationship of the Des Plaines River, Mud Lake, Chicago River and Lake Michigan.
Historically, this system of trails and waterways was first utilized by prehistoric man. Over 7000 years ago southern Indians met with those from the north to trade for copper, and later by Indians traversing the Midwest in hunting, trapping, trading and war parties.
http://chicagoportage.org/synopsis.htm
Portage Park has longstanding connections to water. During wet weather, early Indian inhabitants could paddle their canoes from the Chicago River to the Des Plaines on a minor portage along present-day Irving Park Road. They were reported to have built a village on the top of an elevation west of Cicero and Irving Park Avenues. Another ridge two miles west near Narragansett formed the natural watershed between the Mississippi and Great Lakes drainage system.
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/994.html
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Bois de Sioux River- from wikipedia
Main source Dam at the foot of Lake Traverse, South Dakota
45°51′42″N 96°34′23″W
River mouth Confluence with the Otter Tail River to form the Red River
46°15′52″N 96°35′55″W
Note; from above. Wikipedia's (Main source)
45° 51′ 42″N Latitude 96°34′23″W
---and---- KRS Latitude is 45°48' 40" N about 3 miles away
In 1362 A.D. before all the Modern dams, was this the very source of the Red River/Minnesota River?
On the Solstice at Sunset 270° West from KRS site - Takes you directly to this spot.
This spot were the water runs North to Hudson Bay and South to the Gulf.
opþagelse färd
optagelse färd
opdagelse färd
Try all three of these in Google Translate- modern Swedish to English
The " þ " letter in this word was thought to be " d " but in the 1300's it was used as a " t " so using the second word down optagelse färd= recording journey
What do you think?
Holand explanation has the word opþagelse färd as "Expedition of Discovery"
https://books.google.com/books?id=WhFYAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PR3&vq=optagelse%20f%C3%A4rd&pg=PA162#v=onepage&q=%22op%C3%BEagelsefa&f=false
Richard Nielsen in 2006 has opþagelse färd as -reclaiming of (plundering) journey
"KRS -Compelling New Evidence" page 218
Hjalmar R Holand in his book "Norse Discoveries & Explorations in America 982-1362"page 101 has it as exploration journey
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