[blam]

Just received an email from a FReeper who said they heard on their local news that the Swedish experts has declared the runestone authentic.

We're looking for printed confirmation to this report.

Stay tuned. The Vikings were here?

[Travis McGee]

If this was a "lost Viking expedition," what an adventure they must have lived!

[Pro-Bush]

BUMP!

[farmfriend]

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[SaveTheChief]

I have seen the Kensington Runestone on a few occasions. It is impressive and fairly large, having been used as a ballast stone on a ship. It would be a shame if this is somehow proven to be a fraud.

There is a museum in Alexandria for this stone. I believe the museum has photos of the excavation and the Norwegian farmer who discovered it in the roots of an old tree.

I am interested to read the difinitive results from the Swede lab.

[Agnes Heep]

In his 1832 account of the North American Indian tribes he visited, George Catlin observed that the Mandans (very few of whose descendents are alive today) had physical features that were completely unlike any of the neighboring tribes in the Northwest; almost Caucasian. He noted also that their religious tradition included many elements that recapitulated Hebrew elements, such as the Noah legend. He explained these curious facts by speculating that the Mandans had assimilated white explorers or missionaries at some time in the past. That, of course, is likely true, but it's interesting to think that those explorers might have been Norsemen, exploring the interior of the continent long before conventional knowledge suggests.

[Norse]

LONG LIVE THE VIKINGS!

[TEXOKIE]

Interesting article! There is also an Oklahoma Runestone. Don Coldsmith has written a WONDERFUL story showing a possible interpretation of how it came to be here entitled "Runestone, Mystical Adventure".

Here is a page devoted to links to info about other runestones, including the Kensington:

http://users.pandora.be/educypedia/education/runestones.htm

Here is a page devoted to the Oklahoma runestone:

http://www.kotv.com/okt/runestones.asp

Excerpt from that page:

The Mystery of the Heavener Runestone


In a hollow on Poteau Mountain near Heavener, Oklahoma, there is a state park that holds a mystery. A mystery that many have tried to explain. A mystery etched in the face of a large slab of stone which stands 12 feet tall, 10 feet wide, and 16 inches thick. For years, locals called it "Indian Rock."




Today, it is known as the Heavener Runestone. Gloria Farley, who dedicated over 33 years of research to the stone, says is solved. Farley says the letters on the stone are actually Scandinavian runes and translated means "Gnomel's Valley."

Gloria Farley
She believes Norsemen traveled to the Americas across the Atlantic, explored up the Mississippi, Arkansas and Poteau Rivers centuries before Columbus, establishing a site near the present-day Oklahoma town.
Farley pushed for the establishment of a state park which came into existence in 1970, and which now protects the site.


Now another theory from another Oklahoman is causing some scholars to reconsider the strange etchings on the monument-like stone....snip

[TEXOKIE]

Here is another page devoted to the North American runestones.

http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/americanstones.html

[carpio]

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