Directory > Regional > North America > United States > Minnesota > Society and Culture > Ethnicity > Scandinavian > Kensington Runestone Runestone debate shifts to Sweden Interview of geologist Scott Wolter, who will be taking the Kensington Runestone to a scientific conference in Sweden. 4.5 minutes, RealAudio. [Minnesota Public Radio] http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/07/17_cunninghamg_runestone/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Runestone RealAudio and transcript of MPR feature story. [Minnesota Public Radio] http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199811/24_lehmanng_runestone-m/index.shtml Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The riddle of the Kensington Runestone A special exhibit at the Historiska museet, Stockholm. Photos, an introduction to the controversial stone. Also, special issue of Historiska Nyheter (in PDF). In English and Swedish. http://www.historiska.se/exhibitions/kensington/index-e.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Opening Remarks for the Exhibition "The Riddle of the Kensington Runestone" The U.S. Ambassador to Sweden comments on the controversial stone, on the eve of a conference at the National Historical Museum of Sweden. http://stockholm.usembassy.gov/bio/october22_03speech.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Linguistics expert says he's solved Runestone mystery Dr. Richard Nielsen says that all of the runes and words on the Kensington stone can be found in fourteenth-century documents. [Echo Press] http://www.echopress.com/article.cfm?articleID=8975C3F1-27E5-4C1F-8D84072F8071EBE5 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Smithsonian Now Calls Runestone a Hoax in New Viking Exhibit The Smithsonian Institution, which had endorsed the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone, has done a complete about-face. [Associated Press] http://www.wcco.com/localnews/local_story_334112043.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Rune Stone Full text of the preliminary report to the Minnesota Historical Society by its Museum Committee, presented May 9, 1910. In HTML or page images, your choice. [Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbum0866hdiv26)) Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington Rune Stone Collection Finding aid for a special collection at the University of North Dakota's Chester Fritz Library. Short description of the subject of the collection, inventory of the original donation and an addition. http://www.und.edu/dept/library/Collections/og1040.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington Runestone Home Page Features photos, transcription and translation, Kensington Runestone FAQ, answers to common objections, bibliography. By Bill Hoyt. http://www.geocities.com/epigraphy/kensington/kensington.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Runestone Ongoing investigation of the artifact, including a growing library of original documents. By KRS buff Michael Zalar. http://www.geocities.com/m_zalar/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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J.A. Holvik and the Kensington Runestone: A Study in Ethnic, Religious, and Community Identity Concordia professor J.A. Holvik devoted his scholarly career to debunking the Kensington Runestone. His arguments are those still used today by critics. http://www.cord.edu/dept/teachatcord/centennial/Sprunger1997.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Verified at Last: The Strange and Terrible Story of the Kensington Runestone Dr. Richard Nielsen's monumental paper supporting the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone, published in the peer reviewed journal Scandinavian Studies, has thus far met with an uncomfortable silence. [Ripsaw News] http://www.ripsawnews.com/2001.08.15/feature.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Painful Birth of New Paradigms Scientific reaction to the Kensington Runestone is a case study in resistance to new ideas. [Ripsaw News] http://www.ripsawnews.com/2001.08.15/entertainment.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Tests suggest Kensington Runestone is authentic Report on scholarly findings presented at the Midwest Archaeology Conference held in November 2000. [Associated Press] http://www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/121100/new_1211000032.shtml Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Story of the Kensington Runestone William P. Holmen briefly outlines the history of the controversial stone, and mentions the theory that the Norse explorers may have intermarried with the Mandan Indians. http://kensingtonmn.com/runestonepg.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington, again! Moderator of the OldNorseNet list states baldly that the stone was produced in 19th-century America, and therefore is of no interest except as a delusion. http://www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/2000/II/msg00154.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington Runestone: Thorsteinn's arguments Two-part answer to a critic, from the OldNorseNet mailing list. http://www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/1999/II/msg00709.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Response to Dr. James Knirk's Essay on the Kensington Runestone Richard Nielsen rebuts an earlier essay in the journal Scandinavian Studies which had dismissed the Kensington Rune Stone as a forgery, based on the runic symbols used. 74 pages, 438K, in PDF. http://www.byu.edu/sasslink/pdf/krs.pdf Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Midwest explored by Scandinavians in Middle Ages, linguist asserts Report on Robert A. Hall's book "The Kensington Rune-Stone: Authentic and Important: A Critical Edition." [Cornell News Service] http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/Sept95/st.runestone.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Vinland Center Rune Stone A translation of the Kensington Rune Stone by Peter Sjolander. Contends that the stone marks the exact center of the northern hemisphere and longitudinal center of North America, and that therefore Redminland was all of North America. http://www.sjolander.com/viking/essays/runeston.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Stone Matt Armstrong reviews Ole Godfred Landsverk's book "The Discovery of the Kensington Runestone: A Reappraisal of the Circumstances under which the Stone was Discovered." http://www.ukans.edu/wcb/students/marmstro/modules/page1.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Runestone Avocational archaeologist and epigrapher J. Huston McCulloch attacks the theory that the engraver of the Kensington stone clumsily invented a rune to represent the late Latin letter j. http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Runestone Hill Area Map Shows where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington and Alexandria. http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?infact=2&outfact=2&act=move&on=CITIES&.... Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Geologist thinks Kensington Runestone not a hoax Scott Wolter is convinced that the controversial runestone could not have been carved in 1898. Article by Peg Meier. [Star Tribune] http://www.neara.org/ROS/KRS.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Runestone Hill Topographic Map Interactive map shows land features, and where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington. Requires JavaScript and a 4.0 or later browser. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.811&lon=-95.6601&size=m&s=50 Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington Runesmith Peter Sjolander offers a working translation and an earlier attempt, both of which are very different from the usual translations. Includes rune graphics. http://www.sjolander.com/VIKING/RUNE/futhark/default.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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A Talk on the Kensington Runestone Announcement on the OldNorseNet list of a talk by Michael Zalar, scheduled for the 101st anniversary of the Kensington Runestone's discovery, leads to a week of debate. http://www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/1999/II/msg00673.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Kensington Rune Stone Discussions Subtitled "Why Kensington Runestone Is Authentic." Yuri Kuchinsky's contributions to some rather heated arguments on Usenet. http://www.trends.net/~yuku/tran/tkrs.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Vikings in the Midwest Written as an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Vincent J. Meckstroth. Tries to be objective, but says that proponents of the stone's authenticity merely seem to be educated and scholarly, whereas dismissing the stone immediately as a hoax is "good archeology." http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/webcourse/lost/vikingbrf.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Debunking the Kensington Stone Mystery Written for an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Timothy Mills, who believes that the word "opdagelse" is the fatal flaw. http://www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/webcourse/lost/projects97/ken1.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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The Kensington Rune Stone William Bakken finds Blegen's arguments convincing, i.e., that "expert runologists" have pronounced the inscription a fraud and that people capable of this level of forgery were present in the Kensington area in the 1890s. Bibliography is longer than the article. http://members.aol.com/bakken1/viking/vikkrs.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Is the Kensington Stone the Genuine Article? Keith and Kevin Massey consider the inscription "AVM". http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/keithngail/ Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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