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The start of the Little Ice Age began about 1300 in America, which included Greenland.  By 1350 nearly 4,000 Lenape had walked across Davis Strait on the ice.
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In 1354 King Magnus of Norway had been planning to convert the Russians to Christ, when he received a message that the Greenlanders, a Christian people in his realm, were in distress.

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King Magnus' letter to Paul Knudson has always been available to competent historians.  Today King Magnus' letter is Online for instant access.
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About 1356, Paul Knudson led a fleet, some authorities said five ships, to America in search of the Lenape.
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This stanza of the Maalan Aarum implies that he found them.  Then "No one turned back from here to there."  After three hundred and fifty years of abiding with the pure in Greenland, no one had a desire to return to Norway.
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Paul Knudson may have turned his rescue mission into a supporting mission.  He, apparently, took a pair of river knarrs to scout the shortest, but more dangerous, route to Wynland of West.  
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The route was west up the Current (later, Albany) River, through a wet swamp at a high elevation, and down steam on the river into Lake Nipigon.  From there they would go to Lake Superior. than up stream to portage through the swamp to the North Wild Rice River.
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But the scouting expedition came to a jarring end.
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ABOUT the PICTOGRAPH
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One interpretation: The "head" is on two long "legs."  One leg touches America.  One touches Norway.  Greenland may be the line and triangle under the right leg.
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Another interpretation:  One leg touches America.  Greenland is the abandoned mound on the right.  Norway is the line and triangle under the right leg.  A triangle often indicates strangers.
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Either way the "head" represents a leader astraddle two countries. 
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The "head: wears two feathers.  Norwegian Princes in the 14th century wore feathers as a sign of their conversion to Christ. The Norwegian Christian's wearing of feathers might be related to the American's wearing of feathers.  The earliest drawings of Americans with feathers show a head band with a few feathers standing upright.  That custom might be related to wearing a helmet with feathers.
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