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I think the runetone says: "Ole Olson was here!"
Isanti County is in Minnesota, not Michigan.
Is this the guy?> It contains a message that Wolter believes was carved by Norsemen.
Any guesses as to what it says?
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Thanks solitas for finding and posting this.
(I am pinging for SunkenCiv for a couple of days)
Ya sure, pong
On the other hand, just about the only ordinary farmer who would have instantly recognized a runsone for what it was would have had to have been a Scandinavian.
For anyone else it was just a scratched rock.
Another one of the great mysteries of the Midwest is the location of the gold. Most historians believe the indians lied to DeSoto about where Gold could be found. However, you follow the diary all the way through and you discover the Indians very consistently pointed toward what is today South Central, Indiana where, in fact, a serious glacial deposit of gold was found in the 1800s.
Which means, of course, that the Indians in a broad area of North America, in several different cultures, knew where to find gold in the Ohio Valley.
Stories like this NEED a picture.
Why doesn't this article mention the "transcriptions" of the kensington stone that were later produced by Olof Ohman while promoting the kensington stone? It turns out, the runes on these supposed copies do not match the runes on the stone exactly, or each other exactly. When examined together, they were clearly not copied from the stone, but were rough drafts done before the carving.
Also, the sentence structure and grammar of the stone has little in common with old norsk, but resembles modern english quite well. Every expert on old norse languages that has look at the stone has declared it a hoax.
It amazes me how every few years or so, someone drags up the kensington hoax again. We know the scandinavians were in North America centuries before Columbus. There is actual proven physical evidence of their presence in eastern Canada. Yet for some reason, certain people with scandinavian ancestors don't think that's good enough but insist on some mythical scandinavian empire in North America and repeatedly put forth the kensington hoax as proof.
No doubt, when we finally get to mars, the same people will find a runestone there too.
So, what about the runestones of Eastern Oklahoma? Any connection?
This guy is way off...It was found in June...Everybody knows school kids get out in June...Or maybe it was the spring break...That'd be March, or April, wouldn't it???
Very cool!
I have always loved this story.
Groovy and far out, man!
A link to another stone story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537607/posts