Dr. Ken is Fara Heim’s first Life Member. Dr. Thorlakson went to university to study Medicine at the University of Manitoba in 1943. He has Viking blood in him as he interrupted his studies to join the Royal Canadian Navy with subsequent North Atlantic convoy duty during World War II. Graduation in 1949 was followed one year later by postgraduate surgical training in Britain where he obtained a fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons. Joining the Winnipeg Clinic in 1956, he began a practice in General Surgery at Winnipeg General Hospital (now the Health Sciences Centre) and later at Victoria General Hospital. He was an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Manitoba.  He was installed as a Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, in Winnipeg on August 2, 2000, during the President’s State visit to Canada.

Fara Heim greatly appreciates Dr. Ken’s involvement with Fara Heim.

Click here to read Birgitta Wallace’s paper on Leif Eriksson’s Home in Vinland

Birgitta Wallace sent this to us today. David had met with her two years ago at the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada conference at Brock University. It’s a great paper on the Sagas. Birgitta met with Dr. Parcak and the archaeology team last summer to review the data from the site at Point Rosee.

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Here is Johann Sigurdson talking with Páll Bergþórs­son. Páll has written some books on pre-Columbian exploration with focus on how navigation was done.

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/…/discovery_of_new_viking_sit…/
https://www.facebook.com/p…/Páll-Bergþórsson/100000022629269

If you haven’t heard an archaeology team used satellite images and a ground search last summer to find a previously unknown site in Newfoundland. It isn’t claimed to be a Viking-age site but it sure has some compelling evidence. Dr. Parcak, recent winner of the 2016 TED prize of $1 million, her husband, Dr. Greg Mumford, and Dr. Doug Bolender also developed a NOVA special that is coming out this week.

Here are some links to articles.

Dr. Greg Mumford – Academia.edu site with research notes and articles

Dr. Sarah Parcak being interviewed about space archaeology

National Geographic Article on Newfoundland site