The Viking Rune Inscription Found in North America That Experts Refuse to Authenticate
In the fall of 1898, Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant farmer, was clearing off land on his farm near Kensington, Minnesota. While trying to pull out a deformed poplar tree, he made an important discovery that would begin one of the most heated and enduring debates within archaeology throughout North America.
The roots of the tree were entwined with a huge 202 lb. slab of greywacke stone, with strange angular carvings on the front and one side of the stone. When Öhman and his ten year old son uncovered the stone by brushing away the dirt, they noticed that the carvings looked like an “Indian almanac” to Öhman, but scholars have now determined that the markings are Scandinavian runes. Once translated, the text tells a startling tale about how a group of thirty Norse explorers traveled far inland into North America in the year 1362 and left behind ten men “red with blood” after they were murdered.
If genuine, the Kensington Runestone would drastically change the chronology of European exploration in the Americas, placing Vikings in the Heartland of North America one hundred thirty years before Columbus sailed. The academia collectively response was to challenge the authenticity of the stone which has sparked an ongoing debate more than one hundred years later; see the entire investigation regarding the Kensington Runestones’ authenticity and the experts who do not support its authenticity by upgrading your subscription.
