To the Editor:
Margaret Thomas Buchholz’s Aug. 31 retrospective of our “Viking” figurehead is, just as she says, a continuing mystery. Barnegat Light Museum curator Reilly Sharp is quite correct that the accepted dates of Viking departure from North America leave our 400-year-old wooden artifact a good 500 years too young.
Smithsonian magazine’s excellent article “Darkness at the Edge of the World” (March 2017) details the departure dates and reasons: an Indonesian volcanic eruption, cooling global…
September 28, 2022
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