Talk:Kirsten Seaver

Source ideas
I had some tabs open, so I'll try to compile what was there into some reference ideas, hopefully some subset of which can be used in this article or articles related to the subject's research.
 * Folly Mox (talk) 00:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Source of the Encyclopedia.com source: Folly Mox (talk) 01:44, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Her alumna autobio: Folly Mox (talk) 20:50, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Folly Mox (talk) 00:51, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Folly Mox (talk) 01:27, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Describes interactions with notorious hoaxster Gavin Menzies in the research and publication for his alternate history fanfic 1421 (can't copypaste out of gbooks). Folly Mox (talk) 01:37, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Seaver tearing 1421 to tiny pieces, which we should definitely cite somewhere: Folly Mox (talk) 01:55, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Here's a newspaper source for her discrediting part of Menzies's 1421 idea: Folly Mox (talk) 14:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * talks about Seaver's study of the Vinland Map and her theory as to the forger. Folly Mox (talk) 02:09, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Synopsising and promoting her then forthcoming book: Folly Mox (talk) 20:53, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Another newspaper source about her research into the inauthenticity of the Vinland Map: Folly Mox (talk) 21:05, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Folly Mox (talk) 17:23, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * The following work cites Seaver so many times her surname has 61 matches: Wikipedia Library link Folly Mox (talk) 17:34, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Selected research

 * This source also says Seaver sat on the editorial board of Mercator's World, which might already be in the article.
 * This source also says Seaver sat on the editorial board of Mercator's World, which might already be in the article.

More sources from Kirsten herself
“The ‘Vinland Map’: Who made it, and why? New light on an old problem.” The Map Collector, No. 70 (Spring, 1995), pp. 32-40.

“The Mystery of the ‘Vinland Map’ Manuscript Volume.” The Map Collector,     No. 74 (Spring, 1996), pp. 24-29.

“The Vinland Map: A $3,500 duckling that became a $25,000,000 swan.” Mercator’s World, Vol. 2 no. 2 (March-April 1997), pp. 42-47.

“Baffin Island Mandibles and Iron Blooms” in Thomas H.B. Symons,  Meta Incognita:  A Discourse of Discovery. Martin Frobisher’s ArcticExpeditions, 1576-1578. “Mercury Series”, Canadian Museum of Civilization (Hull, Quebec), 1999. Vol. II, pp. 563-74.

“How Strange Is a Stranger?” in Thomas H.B. Symons, Meta Incognita:  A Discourse of Discovery. Martin Frobisher’s Arctic Expeditions, 1576-1578. “Mercury Series”, Canadian Museum of  Civilization (Hull, Quebec), 1999. Vol. II, pp. 523-52.

“Norse Greenland on the Eve of Renaissance Exploration in the North Atlantic,” in Anna Agnarsdóttir, ed., Voyages and Exploration in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the XVIIth Century. Papers presented  at the 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Oslo 2000. Reykjavík,University of Iceland Press, 2000, pp. 29-44.

“The Chart before the Norse.” Op Ed piece (by request) in The Globe and Mail  (Toronto), Saturday, Nov. 29, 2003. [ A commentary on Jacqueline Olin’s article on the Vinland Map ink, Analytical Chemistry, Dec. 2003.]

“Faith, Fiction, and Fakery: the Story of the Vinland Map.”  In S.M. Lewis- Simpson, ed. Vínland Revisited: The Norse World at the Turn of the First Millennium. Selected Papers from the Viking Millennium International Symposium 15-24 September 2000, Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's, Newfoundland: Historic Sites Association of   Newfoundland and Labrador. 2003.

“The ‘Vinland Map’ – Faking History.” International Map Collectors Society Bulletin 119 (Winter 2009), pp. 33-37. Doug Weller talk 07:43, 11 October 2023 (UTC)