Kensington Rune Stone
"The Kensington Runestone is a 200-pound (90 kg) slab of greywacke covered in runes on its face and side. A Swedish immigrant, Olof Ohman, claimed to have discovered it in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named it after the nearest settlement, Kensington.
The inscription purports to be a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century (internally dated to the year 1362). There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, but the scholarly consensus has classified it as a 19th-century hoax since it was first examined in 1910, with some critics directly charging the purported discoverer Ohman to have fabricated the inscription, although there remains a local community who remain convinced of the stone's authenticity."
The inscription purports to be a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century (internally dated to the year 1362). There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, but the scholarly consensus has classified it as a 19th-century hoax since it was first examined in 1910, with some critics directly charging the purported discoverer Ohman to have fabricated the inscription, although there remains a local community who remain convinced of the stone's authenticity."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Kensington Runestone" (accessed 10/11/2015)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Calcite Weathering and the Age of the Kensington Rune Stone Inscription (Lightning Post)" (Andy White, 9/13/2016)
- "Arguing the Kensington Rune Stone in "Forbidden Archaeology:" A Brief Update" (Andy White, 7/27/2016)
- "Scott Wolter Releases "Peer-Reviewed" Masonic Article Claiming Rune Stone Contains Secret Masonic Code" (Jason Colavito, 7/3/2016)
- "Right- and Left-Handed Rune Carvers?" (Andy White, 6/18/2016)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone as an Encrypted Survey Marker" (Andy White, 6/18/2016)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone: The Oldest "Native" Document in America?" (Andy White, 6/14/2016)
- "The Fringe Is Really Excited about a Translation of a 2015 Danish Article about Runes in Sweden" (Jason Colavito, 6/2/2016)
- "Is the Kensington Rune Stone Related to the Masonic Select Master Degree through a Number Code?" (Jason Colavito, 5/18/2016)
- "#ParadigmSymposium: Scott Wolters, the Kensington Runestone, the Holy Grail, the Secret Treasure Vault of the Templars, and the Founding of America" (PZ Myers, 5/15/2016)
- "Scott Wolter Promises New Kensington Rune Stone Revelation -- After Freemasons Review His Findings!" (Jason Colavito, 3/8/2016)
- "Review of "Myths of the Rune Stone" by David M. Krueger" (Jason Colavito, 10/7/2015)
- "New Book Claims Kensington Rune Stone Is Part of an Elaborate Freemason Numerological Code and Hoax" (Jason Colavito, 10/24/2013)
- "Scott Wolter: French Normans Carved Kensington Rune Stone, Knights Templar Caused Cahokia Collapse" (Jason Colavito, 9/13/2013)
- "Where the Vikings Weren’t – The Kensington Runestone" (ArchyFantasies, 7/17/2013)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone is a White Whale" (L. Moore, 3/25/2013)
- "The Kensington Runestone" (Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, 9/18/2012)
- "The Kensington Runestone is Back in the News" ( David Warner Mathisen, 11/18/2011)
- "Kensington Runestone Faker’s Signature Found" (Martin Rundkvist, 11/16/2011)
- "Documents May Prove Ancient Runestone Fake" (Peg Meier, 4/11/2004)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone" (Gretchen Lehmann, Minnesota Public Radio, 11/24/1998)
- "The Case of the Gran Tapes" (Minnesota History, Winter 1976)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone" (Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XV, 1910)
- "Oldest Native Document in American History" (Hjalmar Rued Holand, Journal of American History 4: 165-184, 1910)
- "Done in Runes" (Minneapolis Journal, 2/22/1899)
Other Online Media
- "Ken's Excellent Epigraphy Trip, Davenport Tablets, and the Kensington Rune Stone" (ArchyFantasies podcast, Episode 36, 5/9/2016)
Other Online Sources
- "Debunking the Kensington Stone" (The Viking Answer Lady)
- "The Kensington Rune Stone: A Study Guide" (John D. Bengston)
- "Debate Continues Over the Kensington Rune Stone" (Russell W. Fridley)
- "Larsson Papers Inspection" (American Association for Runic Studies video, 2011)
- "The Kensington Runestone: A Minnesota Mystery" (Minnesota Historical Society video, 2011)
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