Kensington: The Story and the Stone

By B. Lynn Brant

This is an essay on the status quo of research into The Kensington Rune Stone, It contends that after all these years and all these claims and counter-claims, we still have little to go on other than the story and the stone. The story of the finding was told by Olof Ohman, but remains uncorroborated by either witness or documentary evidence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B. Lynn Brant
• Release date: Mar 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310653780

B. Lynn Brant

I'm an economist by training, but have long had two avocations - the training and companionship of dogs, and amateur archaeology, particularly the evidence (and hoaxes) of pre-Columbian exploration of North America.

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Kensington: The Story and the Stone

B. Lynn Brant

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Table of Contents

Forward

The Story

The Stone

Conclusions

Forward

The fact that you are reading this means you already know something (perhaps much) of the story of the Kensington Rune Stone. Indeed, you probably know many stories, from the original told by Olof Ohman about its finding, to the story told in the inscription on the stone itself, not to mention over a century of theories, claims, counter-claims and accusations. The KRS story has had a good run, far beyond anything its creator (whoever that may have been) intended, or even dreamed.

It must be a daunting task for the newcomer to all this, who is trying to be objective and form a personal conclusion based upon evidence and logic, to consume and digest the mass of material out there on the