Posted on 09/23/2005 7:25:11 PM PDT by solitas
ping
I think the runetone says: "Ole Olson was here!"
Very cool, thanks for posting this. Ya, you betcha.
Isanti County is in Minnesota, not Michigan.
very cool!
I think the runestone says: "It's George Bush's fault, ya!"
Then we would know it was authentic! </sarc>
> It contains a message that Wolter believes was carved by Norsemen.
Any guesses as to what it says?
GGG PING. (w picture)
Thanks solitas for finding and posting this.
(I am pinging for SunkenCiv for a couple of days)
Ya sure, pong
What happened to the picture? It was a great picture, I saw it a moment ago, now all I get is a red X.
I still state that our ancestors were more advanced then we thought. It's so easy for us today to mock the past be denying evidence...because it's "impossible" for today's technology to have been used in the past.
Batteries in Eqypt
Mechanical clock in Greece
Norsemen in the Midwest
You name it...
On the other hand, just about the only ordinary farmer who would have instantly recognized a runsone for what it was would have had to have been a Scandinavian.
For anyone else it was just a scratched rock.
Another one of the great mysteries of the Midwest is the location of the gold. Most historians believe the indians lied to DeSoto about where Gold could be found. However, you follow the diary all the way through and you discover the Indians very consistently pointed toward what is today South Central, Indiana where, in fact, a serious glacial deposit of gold was found in the 1800s.
Which means, of course, that the Indians in a broad area of North America, in several different cultures, knew where to find gold in the Ohio Valley.
Stories like this NEED a picture.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6726/kensington/kensington.htm
http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens3.gif
Here is the clearest - warning! LARGE GIF (2,290,613 bytes)
A serious site on teh Runestone
http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm
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