[vannrox]

A fun and interesting read.

[moodyskeptic]

Yeah, a good read, and instructive on how "experts" can throw cold water on important theories. Makes you wonder how much other history has been spiked or ridiculed into silence by experts.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I remember learning about this "hoax" in grade school in Minnesota.

[RandomUserName]

"...a genuine artifact commemorating the deaths of 10 medireview Scandinavians in Minnesota in the year 1362.

I realize that "eval" is a potentially dangerous Java keyword to execute. But, being a reasonably astute programmer, I also realize that "medieval" is not a keyword at all, and need not be filtered by Yahoo's stupid email tool.

This impact of this clunky tool is really becoming an issue, it seems.

[balrog666]

You're having quite a day with these posts. Just don't fall in The Medved Zone.

[Paul Ross]

BUMP! An excellent read!

[SoDak]

Bump for later reading.

[blam]

Did The Vikings Stay? Vatican Files May Offer Clues

[Lion Den Dan]

Uffdah

[Pining_4_TX]

I thought maybe they found lots of coffee grounds, an ancient jello mold, and a recipe for a potato casserole suitable for church potluck dinners. :)

[rightofrush]

Interesting indeed. When the 2000+ year old copper mines in Minnesota are rigorously investigated, watch out!

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the post.

Im a native Minnesotan, born and grew up about 10 miles from where the Runestone was "found".

The Runestone would have had to have been carved by a farmer that probably never went to school beyond 6th grade... in order to be a hoax.

If any of you folks get a chance , swing on by and have a few days of fishing and sightseeing, its a good area to visit. And ya might even see a real Live Moose .. No Cheese tho. Thank Goodness!

[Red Jones]

amazing

[vikingchick]

ping

[Free Trapper]

Ping.I thought you'd like to see this.

[Mugwumps]

Fascinating. Thanks for posting.

[Wm Bach]

Yeah, but can you really trust scholars with names ending in -sen -son or -san to be unbiased about Viking wanderlust?

Truly, the oceans enabled human intercourse (in every meaning of the word) long before Columbus, and probably even before the Vikings, as each seafaring civilization rose and fell back into it's own dark age.

And so those stone carvings on Rossilyn Chapel in Scotland really are depictions of corn, tobacco, etc. and Titicacans maybe did learn their boat building skills from ancient seafaring Egyptians. Accounts of these travels could very well have gone up in flames along with the great library of Alexandria.

Peri Reis, call your office.

[crystalk]

I believe that the thread I started last winter, was the first ever posted on FR about this runestone. I think it probably is genuine, though it is still a little hard to figure out where the "island" was that it was supposedly emplaced upon.

If we stop thinking east-west, and turn the map around, we will find that the longitude of the Runestone is the easiest point to cross the American continent north-to-south! Hudson's Bay cuts way in on the north, and that is just the proper longitude to get in to the Mississippi system and float down to New Orleans. No mountains, lots of water, and the only real problem is the portage and dry spell up there in NW Minn/E NDak where they had some troubles...

The Michigan tablets will be the next to be verified, I believe. Thousands of them. Many destroyed because people didn't want a "hoax" around.

Americans were very moralistic a hundred or two years ago, and when "scientists" would come out with their usual denunciation of anything that did not fit existing theories, ordinary people thought "hoax" was like a lie or fraud, a terrible moral failing that ought to be punished by lifetime shunning if not jail.

What this poor family the Ohmans, suffered over the last 104 years is beyond belief, and it is still going on! Look at the posts just this past winter of "Darlene," a local young woman in that area.

I now believe that the lost boatmen were intentionally trying to move ESE into the Mississippi system, and were using the (few) high hills NE of the present village of Kensington as a landmark in the trackless prairie. Runestone Hill, the third and lowest, is where this stone was found.

[andy_card]

In related news, archeologists announced that they had uncovered evidence of Polish and Lithuanian settlements in the Chicago region dating from the early 12th century. The evidence, said to be a medieval kielbasa, has convinced even the most skeptical critics. Professor Medved, G.D.E, of the DeVry Institute, speculates that the kielbasa may date from a time when the Earth orbited Saturn.

[NorseWood]

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