24 2004, pp 176–182Hjalmar Holand, "The Kensington Rune Stone: A Study in Pre-Columbian American History." Still, it should be remembered that Ohman (a farmer) swore to his dying day that the stone was real, and he suffered ridicule and family tragedy because of the notoriety his story caused.Still, the rock looked aged, the runes looked good, and the message itself was typical of runestones – informational, but still cryptic. Long story short, Holand took the stone to Europe for analysis. 2,000), with others in lesser amounts in Denmark (250), Norway (50), and the British Isles (approx. At first glance, one might believe this refers to Kensington, England. The AVM Runestone, also known as the Berg-AVM Runestone, is a hoax created in 1985 by students carving runes into a boulder near Kensington, Minnesota, not far from where the Kensington Runestone was found in 1898. Die Inschrift soll die Hinterlassenschaft einer grönländischen Amerika-Expedition der Grænlendingar aus dem 14. Carlos Creek Winery's owners are starting a Viking-themed brewery in Alexandriaon July 24, 2019 at 11:42 pm […] to the Scandinavian heritage of Carlos Creek’s owners, Tami and Kim Bredeson. He achieved brief success in 1949, when the stone was put on display at the The possibility of the runestone being an authentic 14th-century artifact was again raised in 1982 by One of the main linguistic arguments for the rejection of the text as genuine Old Swedish is the term Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman said that he found the stone late in 1898 while clearing land he had recently acquired of trees and stumps before plowing. The runes for a, n, s and t are the old Danish unsimplified forms which should have been out of use for a long time [by the 14th century]...I suggest that [a posited 14th century] creator must at some time or other in his life have been familiar with an inscription (or inscriptions) composed at a time when these unsimplified forms were still in use" and that he "was not a professional runic scribe before he left his homeland".A possible origin for the irregular shape of the runes was discovered in 2004, in the 1883 notes of a then-16-year-old journeyman tailor with an interest in folk music, Edward Larsson.There is some limited historical evidence for possible 14th-century Scandinavian expeditions to North America.

The Kensington Runestone, pictured above, is 31 inches high, 16 inches wide, six inches thick and weighs 202 pounds. The best-known "Viking" artifact in North America is the Kensington Stone. Holand took the stone to Europe and, while newspapers in Minnesota carried articles hotly debating its authenticity, the stone was quickly dismissed by Swedish linguists. Photo by Lorie Shaull CC BY SA 2.0Twenty years later, more advanced tests were done on the area in which Ohman had found the stone – it had been submerged 500 years previously. It was found by the Swedish immigrant farmer, Olof Ohman, while he was clearing his land in the township of Solem, Minnesota, in September of 1898. There was even a runestone discovered on Berezan Island in the Dnieper River in Ukraine, which was a trade route for the Swedish Vikings in the east. W. Krogmann, "Der 'Runenstein' von Kensington, Minnesota', Aslak Liestöl, "The Bergen Runes and the Kensington Inscription Minnesota History 40 (1966), p. 59 Keith and Kevin Massey, "Authentic Medieval Elements in the Kensington Stone" in Epigraphic Society Occasional Publications Vol. The inscription purports to be a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century (internally dated to the year 1362).

It was a great time to be a Viking historian.

Ephraim WI, self-published (1932).Pohl, Frederick J. For about eight hundred years, Scandinavians carved and erected stone monuments to their achievements, family members (dead and alive), property and beliefs.

Supporters of a 14th-century origin for the Kensington runestone argue that Knutson may, therefore, have travelled beyond Greenland to North America, in search of renegade Greenlanders, most of his expedition being killed in Minnesota and leaving just the eight voyagers to return to Norway.However, there is no evidence that the Knutson expedition ever set sail (the government of Norway went through considerable turmoil in 1355) and the information from Cnoyen as relayed by Mercator states specifically that the eight men who came to Norway in 1364 were not survivors of a recent expedition, but descended from the colonists who had settled the distant lands several generations earlier.Hjalmar Holand adduced the "blond" Indians among the A possible route of such an expedition connecting the The stone on display in the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce and Runestone MuseumMichael G. Michlovic, "Folk Archaeology in Anthropological Perspective" Holand, "First authoritative investigation of oldest document in America", Milo M. Quaife, "The myth of the Kensington runestone: The Norse discovery of Minnesota 1362" in

After all, the Vikings did raid and possess much of England before 1066.Images of the two carved faces of the Kensington Runestone.However, this Kensington is in Minnesota, USA, over 2,700 miles away from L’anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, Canada, the only place in the Western Hemisphere recognized as a landing site for Norse adventurers during the Viking Age.In 1898, Swedish immigrant Olof Ohman announced that he had discovered a type of sandstone stele (memorial) while clearing his land near the town of Solem, Minnesota. Similar to notes dated 1883.Initially, many wanted to claim that this was indeed a true Scandinavian object – that some Swedes from Götland and some Norwegians had made it to the American midwest one hundred some odd years before Columbus entered the Western Hemisphere.It seems odd that the stone would would be found by a none other than a Swedish immigrant at a time when Scandinavian immigrants were flooding into the area.Like many other immigrant groups, the Scandinavians were eager to show that they belonged in their new chosen land – how better to claim that than to show that people from their homeland were there hundreds of years before the British?Also not to be forgotten is that in Europe and in some places in American highbrow culture, Norse/Viking myth and heritage was going through a renaissance of sorts. [In the] year 1362." A Swedish immigrant farmer named Olof Ohman found this stone slab near Kensington, Minnesota, in 1898. Another characteristic pointed out by skeptics is the text's lack of Proponents of the stone's authenticity pointed to sporadic examples of these simpler forms in some 14th-century texts and to the great changes of the morphological system of the Scandinavian languages that began during the latter part of that century.S. To many Viking Age historians both professional and amateur, the most mysterious runestone is the “Kensington Runestone”. Ohman's ten-year-old son, Edward Ohman, noticed so…