Posted on 09/23/2005 7:25:11 PM PDT by solitas
Here are just some of the things wrong with the kensington stone:
There are a lot of other things that are wrong about the kensington stone which clearly demonstrate it is a hoax. Do you want more?
More to the point, it is possible to artificially wear inscriptions. Given the number of people who have demonstrated an almost religious need for the kensington stone to be genuine, I wouldn't rule that possibility out. However, the probability of an actual viking in the 1300's carving a runestone using modern swedish, norwegian, icelandic, and english with a modern english grammar and sentence structure using tradesman runes from the 1800's is an absolute zero. The chance that papers from the mid 1800's with almost exact copies of the pecular runic inscription could have been written while the stone was purportedly still in the ground is also zero.
I have no doubt that Scott Wolter is being honest in his findings. I also have no doubt that he has been fooled, just like so many others have been by the kensington hoax.
I'll have to modify my thinking. It looks like the only people who attempt hoaxes are men and little english girls. And that doesn't actually help defend men against my premise that they are basically strange creatures with far too too much time on their hands. Adult women are just more sensible and have better things to do.
Groovy and far out, man!
You still raise an interesting point. Virtually all of the hoaxers have been male. But curiously, in the other realms of human malfeasance, there have been equally infamous (though not as numerous) females, from Livia and Countess Bathory to Anne Bonney. However, I don't include Boadicea. She was provoked! :)
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