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    The Karlskrona Find
    The Karlskrona Find
    The Karlskrona Find
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    The Karlskrona Find

    By D. E. Harrison

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    A large black Viking box is unearthed after being found by ground radar. It is of unknown date and is a one-piece rock with a lid. The box has writings in it. The language is so ancient it is not readable. The picture in it cannot be true because it is counter to all the scientific knowledge of the Vikings.
    The finding and opening of the box causes a racial stir in several female investigators.
    Before the black box was buried eons ago, Herman the Bold returns from a raid to find his son had been killed with other nephews by drunken warriors at a Fjord given them. The Bold is ready to sack every town and village controlled by their leader, the Weasel. A Viking trial by blood is proposed for those involved. But his representative is killed.
    The Bold visits the Oracle and his youngest daughter is given the Word. She is the Kvenlegur Vordur. Blood flows as water whenever the Vordur is summoned. The Weasel’s entire family tree become known to the Vordur. Death her-self screams with the Vordur, brave men tremble, and women shutter at their cry.
    The Telnco family in the 1600s are extremely poor smuggles in Sicily. The Mahnco is the most powerful family on the island. They salvage a ship killing all they find. They barely leave enough for the Telncos to live on. The survivors ask the Telncos only for rope for a sail to leave. Years later a Vordur lands on the shore and soon the Telnco family is the most powerful in all the land.
    NY city in the 1960s has 4 groups meeting in hope of claiming more territory and extending their power, the first is the Telnco family from Sicily and the largest crime family in the east. A family council runs them as a business to make money. The Chinese Tong is run by old men, who respect their ancestors. The Black Brothers needs more territory but sees the benefits of a controlling council. The Puerto Ricans are like a rat in a dog kennel. They steal what no one else wants but they want more.
    The 5th group is the NYPD, police. They do not want a gang war when the Patriarch of the Telnco family dies. The GGGFather rules their council.
    The Telnco’s GGGSons have without family council approval started to move into unclaimed territory around the docks of NY City. They maybe kissed by GGGFather for their unauthorized actions!
    Their GGGFather has a key around his neck which opens a cabinet they still have when the left Sicily. In it is a small black box.
    The Patriarch knows the Vordur has been summoned. Can he save the entire at family at home and overseas? Who is to be feared the most, the warriors and their swords or the smaller dressed warriors with their Helberds?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateJan 21, 2019
    ISBN9780463419366
    The Karlskrona Find
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      The Karlskrona Find - D. E. Harrison

      The Karlskrona Find

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 1999 by D. E. Harrison

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Prologue About 450 AD in the Early Winter

      Chapter 1 Mid 1950’s, Near the Current Town of Karlskrona in SE. Sweden

      Chapter 2 The Prussian Visit

      Chapter 3 The Plotting Begins

      Chapter 4 The Oracle

      Chapter 5 The Return from Prussia

      Chapter 6 Mid 1960’s; New York City; the First Meeting of Five Diverse Groups

      Chapter 7 About 450 AD, Early Winter

      Chapter 8 Monday, Mid 1960’s in Up State NY, the Telnco Family Council

      Chapter 9 Mid 1950’s at Oslo University

      Chapter 10 Late 1600’s, Off the South West Coast of Sicily

      Chapter 11 Late 1600’s, Several Years After the Ship Was Lost Off the Coast of Sicily

      Chapter 12 Mid 1960’s, the Lawyer

      Chapter 13 Mid 1960’s More Meetings

      Chapter 14 Mid 1960’s, the Lawyer and Detectives

      Chapter 15 Late 1600’s Mahnco Family

      Chapter 16 Mid1960’s the Visit

      Chapter 17 Mid 1960’s, the Final Meetings

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      Prologue About 450 AD in the Early Winter

      The bare hands of the men tingle on the cold iron spikes in the tree, as it slams into the door. Six pairs of piercing blue eyes focus on the point where the tree will next strike. A small grunt is heard from cold lips as the tree strikes the door again. The low morning sun catches their frozen breath in a cloud around the doorway as they swing in unison.

      The entire long house trembles and dust shakes down from the roof as the tree is slammed again against the large four-inch thick wooden door. The sound echoes throughout the entire village.

      Not a word is spoken as the tree is rammed again and again into the door as its beginnings to give way. Between the sounds of the tree striking the door, muffled voices can be heard coming from behind it.

      The next thrust of the tree produces a large cracking sound from the splitting of the door jam. Still with no words spoken, it is slammed into the left side, then the right side, then the left, then right, left, right and the door finally crashes in. A final thrust clears the tables and other items thrown up against the door.

      The passage way is now clear into the long house. The men with the tree retreat several paces away and drop the tree to the ground. Their task is complete.

      Standing back a few paces from the opened doorway are ten men in two rows dressed in full battle gear waiting with sword in hand. As the door gives way, their swords catch the morning sun through the branches of the trees as they raise them up. The men, their swords now raised to full height above their heads, march past the tree and then break into a dead run. They charge the open doorway; the sound from all ten throats is the blood curdling Norseman’s battle cry. The screams of their victims coming from the long house are heard throughout the entire village, and the Norsemen’s work is quickly completed.

      A smaller group of warriors, in both number and stature, march several paces closer to the long house as their fellow warriors charge inside. The smaller ones are grasping battle-axes whose razor-sharp half-moon crescent blades sparkle in the rays of the sun, with most axes taller than the warriors holding them. All their blue eyes are glaring into the dark doorway, like a wolf looking for the hare that just darted into its den.

      The first warriors into the house leave. Every sword is scarlet and dripping. With not a word spoken, the smaller warriors break rank and rush into the long house. There are muffled screams from the long house before they leave.

      Chapter 1 Mid 1950’s, Near the Current Town of Karlskrona in SE. Sweden

      An ancient Norse village in extreme SE Sweden on the Hanboukten will be the final field-testing site of a new sonar/radar ground device developed by Professor Young. This specific dig was excavated down to the original hardpan the previous year by Professor Herman of the Oslo University. He insisted that his crews pick an additional eight inches deeper than normal to insure he had left nothing behind.

      Professor Herman offered his site, 14a10, to his great grandnephew Professor Young to run the concluding field tests on his improved Sally-3 model. Previously in the late fall he had tested Sally-2 in the nearby sites being run by Dr. Herman and Dr. Cox with success.

      Sally-2 was taken out of the field for a major overhaul and upgrade. It is now early spring, and the new version called Sally-3 is ready for testing.

      The testing team is led by Professor Samuel Young, a middle age electronics genius. Sandy hair, light complexion would make it easy for him to pass as a Scandinavian. He is also a great grandnephew of Professor Herman.

      Doctor William Lee, formerly of Hong Kong is a rather young Professor of Egyptian archeology from Cal-Teck. His interest is in using electronics to explore beneath the Egyptian sands for tombs. He has many possible sites in the ancient highlands of Egypt from the hieroglyphs he has found. He hopes to ‘reduce’ them down to a very few good choices with the use of Sally, so he may begin to dig.

      Doctor Ben Cox from Princeton is the only Norse archeologist on the team. He is in his late 50’s and is noted for his attention to detail. He is best known for his digging side by side with his crew’s day after day. His lofty Princeton degree would seem to preclude his hands-on approach to archeology. He is currently advising on the other two nearby Norse digs.

      His assistant Joe Brown, a graduate student from the University of Maine, is doing fieldwork under his direction and Professor Herman’s. Joe was also at the test site 14a10 last year with Professor Herman as it was picked clean.

      The test group docks their small ship at the makeshift dock on the Karlskrona about 4:30 am as the sun is rising above the tall pine trees. Joe can still see his breath in the crystal-clear air. It will take four hours to truck Sally from the dock to the dig site.

      The dirt road is very rough from the hard winter storms and melting snow. Care is taken not to bump her crates around. At best, the ride is rough even for the passengers. Joe is more than dusty as he climbs out of the back of the truck at the dig site. The last several miles they stop to fill holes in the road and Joe has forged several streams attempting to find a smooth crossing. More than once, he went well over his knees looking for a shallow crossing. His wet pants do not help his feeling of being cold.

      At the site, Professor Young unpacks Sally’s three crates and the team begins to assemble her. Joe removes a tire from her and goes to pump it back up. He can find nothing wrong with it, except it is flat.

      They have run the initial set up calibrations and they need the tire as Joe brings it from the truck. The new large pneumatic tires with ball bearings were Dr. Cox’s idea. Sally-2 had hard small rubber tires, which made pushing her over rough ground difficult. Dr. Cox volunteers to run Sally over the site and check out the calibrations against the natural formations.

      The team is surprised and unbelieving; Sally is reporting several objects at various depths at different locations on her first test run. Professor Young is not concerned over the readings.

      He says, This is why we are here, to complete the field testing of Sally. She was likely to have some miss-readings after that long bumpy ride. We will just re-calibrate and reset her.

      The three members of the team make the adjustments as Professor Young re-calculates the necessary mathematical formulas. Dr. Cox again takes the lead and walks Sally over the site. Their work removes all but one signal that will not go way.

      The problem is in the reading, it is nearly five feet deep and Sally keeps reporting ‘man-made, man-made.’

      Five feet is well beyond Sally’s current rated limits and the ‘man made’ reading is even less likely. Sally is set to the highest power rating possible and the site is again swept. Strange, but the original signal has not changed either in location or intensity. Everyone expects a huge jump in the signal as Sally passes over this area.

      Joe suggests, Let’s set her power at the maintenance level and run the site again.

      Professor Young points out At that level she is barely alive and hardly knows her own name.

      Everyone is surprised; the location where the object has been reported has the same level of intensity as all the other runs. Sally’s functioning is now in doubt. The low power settings should preclude probing any of the site.

      This effort has taken several hours, and they have over this one location at different angles white lines drawn on the ground. Joe brought the marking chalk for just such a purpose.

      Professor Young, or Samuel to his friends, is now certain he has found something deep in the ancient sub-soil of this very, very, old village. Of course, the site is almost flat after all the extra picking Dr. Herman did.

      Samuel is excited, We have found something; it is about the size of a suitcase: I think, look at that rectangular shape Sally is showing. Let’s get the shovels and start to dig.

      Doctor Lee, from Cal-tech frowns, shakes his head, "Sally could be locating a large unusual glacial boulder, or she may still have a miss-function. The readings she has given us at all the weird power settings we have used shows there is something slightly off. We should have never been able to get even a reading at her maintenance level. Besides we are at the bottom level of this dig and then some, we have been looking at a primitive hardpan all morning.

      Remember, Dr Herman had them hand pick an extra eight inches at this site. Joe can attest to how hard that work was. Samuel, let’s recheck Sally one more time?

      Alright, I will reset Sally myself, it will take me half an hour.

      Samuel is not happy but for the time being, reason prevails. He takes out the tinniest screw driver Joe has ever seen and sits on the ground, he resets and tests every voltage regulator in Sally until he is satisfied that all is in perfect working order.

      Finishing, he personally starts to make a series of passes over the entire site again. The other three members of the team feel that there may be still several small problems with Sally.

      They are all thinking, ‘the ride from the cove likely upset something. Maybe she just needs to sit with the power on for a while.’

      Sally continues to indicate the presence of a ‘man made’ object only at that one location. Professor Young outlines in red chalk a two by three feet spot. The red and white lines over lays the scratches and small ridges of dirt used to mark the spot from the first run. The look on his face is of excitement and adventure tells the team members that he is going for a shovel. He is going to dig with or without them. Reason is now out the door.

      The two senior members of the team stand with their arms folded as Samuel goes into the tents looking for a shovel. Joe had set the camp up several days before they arrived with Sally. The camp is just two tents as they plan on being in the field only two days. Food and a cot are all they have.

      Joe, on the other hand is also catching the fever of a find.

      He thinks to himself, ‘might as well join the party, I will go get my pick. A year ago, I would have never volunteered to ever pick here again, it is as hard as a rock.’

      While Joe is looking, Professor Young returns with a shovel. His first attempt with the shovel bounces off the hardpan. But he is not daunted because of it; he keeps on bouncing the shovel tip off the hardpan. A little dirt and rock chips fly on his next try. He looks over at William and Ben with a huge grin on his face that shows the hardpan is not going to dampen his sprits at all. He next puts both his feet on the shovel and jumps up and down on it. This makes an even more rock chips fly.

      By the time Joe returns with his gloves, pick, and some water there is a gaping hole one foot deep, two by three-foot-wide right in the middle of the spot outlined by Sally. The three other members of the team are all standing at the edge and staring into the hole.

      ‘You should not be able to dig here with a shovel in this hard-pan,’ Ben is thinking.

      ‘There should not be a shaft here, but there it is,’ William is thinking.

      Oh my, oh my, what have I found? Professor Young mutters under his breath.

      Joe joins the group around the hole and they all continue to stand and stare for several minutes trying to take in what has happened.

      Professor Young breaks the trance, Ben, quickly, takes the truck over to the other sites and brings their crews over here. Close those digs as quickly as possible. Bring everyone they can spare plus all their tools, tents, and supplies. I have no idea how long this will take.

      Ben starts to objects, but Samuel tells him, Yes Ben, I understand that this will be a major interruption for them. If need be, we can truck them over and back until we set up their tents here. But I need them all here, if possible. You do what you think makes the best sense!

      Both Ben and William understand the blood pounding through Samuel’s head over his first possible major find. They also have many times felt the need to rush when a ‘find’ appears to be so close. But they know he will have to be reined in. This dig must be done in a careful scientific manner, regardless if there is a ‘find’ or not. But it appears they are onto something.

      They are all starting to feel that twinge in their stomach that says, "We are close to something big."

      Ben says, Sam, we may be onto something, I will pull the crews from their sites and send them over here. We will need their supplies to do this properly. William and Joe can begin to set up what they will need here. I will go to the boat and call Professor Herman. Technically this is still his site and he should come down immediately to see what we have discovered. Who has the truck keys?

      Professor Young, as he hands the keys to Ben, Remember the hand-held radio is up on the shelf above the sink, please bring it. I put it there and forgot to bring it.

      Professor Young runs back to the hole as Ben drives off. William and Joe are starting to measure the site and prepare for the marker placements to continue the dig. Other than Joe’s tape measure, which he is never without and some chalk, they have no proper digging supplies to use.

      Samuel is little help in the marking. He places Sally in the shade and puts her on maintenance power.

      "Sorry old girl, but we may need you later and I do not want to turn you off and then spend the

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