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	Kensington Runestone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kensington is near a portage between the Hudson Bay and Mississipi watersheds.
		However, linguists critical of the stone's authenticity consider the word to be a neologism and note the Swedish author Gustav Storm in the late 19th century had often used the term in a series of articles on Viking exploration published in a Norwegian newspaper and known to have been circulated in Minnesota.
		The Kensington Runestone could be a stunning prank left by someone with knowledge of obscure medieval runes and intersecting word forms apparently unknown to most professional linguists at the close of the 19th century, or a haunting message left by 14th century Scandinavian explorers in the heart of North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kensington_runestone (2957 words)

	North American Rune Stones
		The stone was found by a Minnesota farmer named Olaf Ohman in November of 1898 while a digging up a poplar tree stump on the southern slope of a 50-foot high knoll.
		Unfortunately, the stone was not left in place, so they were unable to demonstrate its obvious age from the growth pattern of the tree.
		Labyrinths of Speculation: The Kensington Rune Stone, 1898-1998
	www.sunnyway.com /runes/americanstones.html (2096 words)

	Kensington Rune Stone. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		much-disputed stone found (1898) on a farm near Kensington, Minn., SW of Alexandria.
		Inscribed on the stone in runes is an account of a party of Norse explorers, 14 days’ journey from the sea, who camped nearby in 1362 and lost 10 of their men, presumably to Native Americans.
		Most scholars argue that the stone is a hoax, i.e., that it is of more recent origin than the 14th cent., though some accept it with the corroborative archaeological evidence.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ke/KensingRS.html (176 words)

	ipedia.com: Kensington runestone Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kensington runestone is a roughly rectangular slab of greywacke, 30 by 16 by 6 in and weighing about 200 lb (900 kg) covered in runes found in Kensington, Minnesota in 1898.
		That the stone had laid under a tree was proved in 1899 by nine inspector who saw that a root fitted perfectly around the stone.
		The runes used for the inscription are deviant from the normal fuþark;, and exactly match a runic cipher used by journeymen of the guild in the late 19th century.
	www.ipedia.com /kensington_runestone.html (1437 words)

	Kensington Rune Stone
		The back side of the stone has two undulating discolorations, "believed to be chemical bleaching of minerals in the stone from prolonged contact with tree roots." (The KRS was allegedly found entangled in the roots of a tree, although some skeptics have discounted this claim.)
		Session of the Joint Midwest Archaeological and Plains Anthropological Conference on "The Kensington Runestone Reexamined," St. Paul, MN, 11/10/00.
		The Echo Press of Alexandria Minn. reported that Janey Westin, the finder of the stone who had spent weeks and hundreds of dollars investigating and transporting the 2200-pound stone to safe storage, was not amused by the prank.
	www.econ.ohio-state.edu /jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm (1849 words)

	Kensington Rune Stone Collection
		The Kensington Rune Stone was discovered three miles northeast of Kensington, Douglas County, Minnesota in the fall of 1898.
		"The Myth of the Kensington Rune Stone: The Norse Discovery of Minnesota 1362." The New England Quarterly 7 (December, 1934), 613-645.
		“The Kensington Rune Stone.” Minnesota Archaeologist 27 (1965), 97-115.
	www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/og1040.html (828 words)

	THE KENSINGTON RUNESTONE
		NEW: The Kensington Runestone is in Stockholm at the
		NEW and IMPORTANT: A symposium on the Kensington Runestone was recently held at the Midwest Archeological Conference, with the latest info on the runestone.
		In November of 1898, a stone was discovered near Kensington, MN inscribed with strange markings which were later found to be ancient Norse runes.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Island/3634/index2.html (754 words)

	Cornell Science News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The stone was tightly clasped in the roots of a poplar tree at least 40 years old.
		Medieval characters called runes and pentadic (to the base five) numbers that are carved on one side of the stone can be translated to to tell the story of Swedish and Norwegian explorers who returned to camp from a fishing expedition to find their 10 companions slain.
		In Hall's 1982 book, The Kensington Rune-Stone is Genuine, the Cornell scholar performed a linguistic analysis of the runic text, lending strong support to thesis of the "affirmers" (especially Hjalmar R. Holand and Sivert N. Hagen) that the stone could not have been carved by Olof Ohman or anyone else in Minnesota in the 1890s.
	www.news.cornell.edu /science/Sept95/st.runestone.html (423 words)

	RipSaw News \| The News & Entertainment Weekly of the Twin Ports \| Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kensington Runestone, thought for over 100 years to be a hoax, now stands verified as a genuine artifact commemorating the deaths of 10 medieval Scandinavians in Minnesota in the year 1362.
		These same runeforms, when later discovered on the Kensington Runestone, are declared “impossible” by various “experts” in their debunking of the stone, even though the discovery of these runeforms predates the discovery of the Kensington Runestone itself.
		Once the first couple of investigators had proclaimed the stone to be a forgery (and they weren’t even experts, see p.8 sidebar), it seems as if the taint of scandal became so intoxicating to the academic community that the stone simply couldn’t get a fair hearing for the hysteria.
	www.ripsawnews.com /2001.08.15/feature.html (4528 words)

	MPR: Proof or Hoax?
		The new stone's authenticity is being questioned by some archeological experts, in a debate reminiscent of the 103-year-old argument over the first runestone.
		Westin says the AVM stands for Ave Maria, which, coincidentally, was also etched on another stone, the Kensington Runestone, found in the same area, in 1898.
		Westin and the other researchers working with her say the new runestone proves the original stone is real, and that Vikings spent time in Minnesota 600 years ago.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200108/13_postt_stone-m (730 words)

	THEODORE CHRISTIAN BLEGEN: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
		Kensington Runestone research files (1899-1968) and miscellaneous correspondence files (1878-1956) of Theodore C. Blegen (1891-1969), a University of Minnesota professor (1927-1939), dean (1940-1960), superintendent (1931-1939), and research fellow (1960-1969) at the Minnesota Historical Society.
		The runestone files generated in the 1960s while he was researching the stone, concern a large stone bearing runic inscriptions that were purportedly carved by Viking explorers, and which was found near Kensington (Douglas County), Minnesota in 1898.
		The stone was found near Kensington (Douglas County), Minnesota in 1898, and is known as the Kensington Runestone.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/p1666.html (820 words)

	Tile Flooring \| Ceramic \| Stone by Kensington Carpet One \| Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		His basis of this is the coincidence that the Kensington Runestone in MN was found exactly equidistant from North Pole and Equator, and from Pacific and Atlantic coasts.
		The Kensington Runestone is a hoax apparently perpetuated by Olaf Ohman, the Norwegian emigrant who "found" the stone and Hjalmar J. Holand who "translated" the stone and supposedly found 14th century weapons laying about in the woods nearby.
		This arrangement seems completely unlikely when one compares the Kensington Rune Stone to the many examples remaining in Scandinavia, which almost always combine a loose, almost free-form format, with the text twining around the edge or in the margins of a picture or along the outer contour of a stone.
	www.vikinganswerlady.com /vkhoaxes.htm (1517 words)

	Kensington Rune Stone -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		When Lucy Stone married the Ohio abolitionist Henry Blackwell in 1855, she kept her own name as a protest against the unequal laws that restricted married women.
		By the 1890s the term Lucy Stoner was used for any female crusader in the women's rights movement—particularly for a married woman who kept her own name as her surname.
		Stone circles used as ancient burial grounds still dot the landscape of the Isle of Man.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9328155 (696 words)

	The Story of the Kensington Runestone
		It all started in l898 when the ten year old son of Olof Ohman, who was farming two and half miles northeast of Kensington, found strange markings on a slab of rock that had just been pried out of the ground.
		No one was able to completely decipher the stone, until nine years later when Hjalmer R. Holand, a University of Wisconsin graduate student with a major in history, heard of the stone on a trip to Kensington.
		Verendrye, a French explorer, took the stone to eastern Canada, where it was studied by Jesuit priests, and then he took it to France where it became lost.
	kensingtonmn.com /runestonepg.html (845 words)

	Background on Rune Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Kensington Rune Stone, as it came to be known, was "found" in 1898 by a man named Olof Ohman in Kensington, Minnesota.
		Olof claimed that the stone had been tangled up in the roots of a tree that he had dug up.
		In 1899 the existence of the stone was advertised in a newspaper.
	www.siue.edu /~aleopol/shadwell/runestone.html (268 words)

	Paranormal News -- Your Source for UFO and Paranormal Related Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Long derided by skeptics as a forgery committed by Ohman, the stone’s inscription has been validated and all modern scientific work indicates that it is authentic.
		Wallace about the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone, she wrote the following: “If you are going to do a reasonable evaluation of factors pro and con (regarding) the inscription, you should consider which scholars have considered it a modern fabrication as opposed to those who have advocated its authenticity.
		What she fails to mention is the telling fact that of the geologists who have examined the stone, not one of them ever supported the idea of a modern hoax.
	www.paranormalnews.com /article.asp?ArticleID=457 (1246 words)

	Documents may prove ancient runestone fake
		Scholars who believe the Kensington Runestone is a 19th-century prank -- and not concrete evidence that Norsemen beat Columbus to America by 100-plus years -- say they have found the smoking gun to prove it.
		The tree was in his field at Kensington, near Alexandria, Minn. A runic inscription on the stone describes a massacre of 10 members of an exploration party of Swedes and Norwegians in central Minnesota in the year 1362.
		The Kensington Runestone was displayed at a museum in Stockholm, Sweden, last fall and examined there by scholars.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/168635_prank12.html (792 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The age of the tree is in doubt, according to him, but he accepts the stone would have spent at least a few years in the ground prior to being uncovered.
		One problem with these people [the critics of the authenticity of the stone] is that they get carried away by their own rhetoric and go overboard, thus destroying any credibility they might otherwise have had.
		The letter V in AVM is inscribed on the stone in a special sort of way, with an elongated right-hand part of the letter V. This is known as a _superscript_.
	www.trends.net /~yuku/tran/7k.htm (2042 words)

	Dr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Holvik resumed his investigation of the Kensington stone, he began to put together a new theory of Ohman’s motivation and methods, an interpretation with close parallels to Setterlund and the Elbow Lake stone.
		Wahlgren’s 1958 book The Kensington Stone: A Mystery Solved incorporates many of Holvik’s findings, such as discrepancies in the accounts of the Stone’s discovery, Ohman’s reputation for pranks and resentment of academics, the possibility that Hedburg’s "copy" of the inscription was actually a rough draft, even Holvik’s speculation on AVM.
		His minor participation in the MHS committee investigation of 1910 and that committee’s endorsement of the Stone were to haunt him for the rest of his life.
	www.cord.edu /dept/teachatcord/centennial/Sprunger1997.htm (5995 words)

	The Kensington Rune Stone
		The stone was in the possession of Hjalmar Holand for some time and his publications defend its authenticity.
		Blegen also shows that people with the capability to prepare the stone were present in the area in the 1890's.
		The Kensington Rune-stone: A Reappraisal of the Circumstances under which the Stone was Discovered.
	members.aol.com /bakken1/viking/vikkrs.htm (357 words)

	Vinland Center Rune Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The top part of the stone is lost, but I have translated the rest.
		The context for my translation takes into account the fact that the stone was centered exactly half way between the north pole and the equator and exactly half way between the Atlantic ocean and the Pacific ocean.
		The top one is the location of Kensington Minn. The Runestone Park is 24 miles ENE of Kensington.
	www.sjolander.com /viking/essays/runeston.htm (225 words)

	VNLND By Author: H
		Further discussion of the Kensington Stone, dentification of Newport Tower as headquarters of the Knutsson expedition, and discussion of putative Norse weapons and tools found in America.
		On a trip to Europe he found few willing to listen to his views on runes and the Kensington Stone, yet when faced with a runic inscription in Copenhagen which no one could read, he did so successfully and was told he was right.
		His aim is "to present the latest phases of the discussion concerning the rune stone." Mainly refutations of his critics and generally repetitious (although as a master debater he always produces a few new twists in his arguments).
	www.vnlnd.net /author/authh.htm (9193 words)

	Kensington Rune Stone on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Second mystery stone unearthed in Kensington; Those who believe the first famous runestone is authentic say they now have proof; the doubters say it's another hoax.(NEWS)
		The bat creek stone revisited: a fraud exposed.(Reports)
		Farmer's not a fraud, family says; Details about Olof Ohman and research into the Kensington Runestone are exciting proponents of authenticity and encouraging his family.(NEWS)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/kensingr1s1.asp (332 words)

	The Kensington Runestone; verified as proof of Scandinavians in Minnesota in 1362 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kensington Runestone by Newton Winchell in 1909 are correct.
		And so those stone carvings on Rossilyn Chapel in Scotland really are depictions of corn, tobacco, etc. and Titicacans maybe did learn their boat building skills from ancient seafaring Egyptians.
		Whatever one makes of the Stone itself, it is now generally conceded by neutral observers that Scandinavians had been visting parts of North America for centuries, even millennia, and there was probably an ongoing knowledge of sea routes, currents, etc. handed down among mariners there.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/720514/posts (5895 words)

	Vinland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When I translated the Kensington rune stone and drew the conclusion that it may be a Vinland center stone.
		The stone that was at it's center is about the size of the Kensington rune stone.
		The texture of the rock looked the same as the Kensington stone, but the color was different.
	www.sjolander.com /viking/vinland (1621 words)

	The kensington stone: a mystery not solved
		It is safe to say that the great majority of professional archeologists consider the Kensington Stone, with its runic inscription, to be a hoax.
		Two major challenges to the authenticity of the Kensington Stone are:
		In fact, the use of Arabic innovations actually supports the authenticity of the Kensington Stone.
	www.science-frontiers.com /sf048/sf048p01.htm (190 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kensington Rune Stone (Archaeology, General) - Encyclopedia
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		Kensington Rune Stone, much-disputed stone found (1898) on a farm near Kensington, Minn., SW of Alexandria.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KensingRS.html (248 words)

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