Heaven Holds the Answers

By E. Tillman

It's not what we read but rather how we read it that makes the difference!!!What if I told you things are not as they appear. Black is not black and White is not white and 130 B.C. is not 130 years before Christ. Now turn off the lights and tell me what is white and what is black, color is the refection of light, without light there is no color. That's what Rome did, they turned off the lights on the truth.And the way we been taught to record time is not the only way it was done.And that an ancient order set claim to the entire Western Hemisphere long before Columbus and possibly achieved it in 130 B.C. With B.C. possibly meaning before Columbus, before the cycle or before the comet of 1492 becoming 1362, possible in this case B.C. stood for all three events.130 B.C. is not as it appears and the claim was not made for a mortal king or country, but rather for a Supreme God, Under God laws.If you like riddles. If you like enigmas. If you would like to see history recorded and told differently or truer then you may be ready for this challenge. If you are then you are ready to look at the clues that was left behind with an open mind.If you like astronomy, I'll show you how different groups of people each use different galactic events besides the Star of Bethlehem to mark the start of their time and all the different groups calendar are tied together. We will be looking at the equivalent of several Stars of Bethlehem from here in the Americas.I'll be taking you through a dating wormhole without leaving the planet, making you scratch your head, laugh and wonder, "what if he is right. "This book just maybe the start of the rest of the story. If you read through this book the first time you will read it again and again.And you will possibly come to the same conclusion, "So that's how they did that. "And you will never read things the same way all the time again. Including the Book of Mormons with its three different voyages and possible dating enigmas, truest account ever written about the Americas."Sometimes it's not what is being said that's important, it's what not being said that is.You will be intrigued, so if you are ready to start a journey that will give you a lot to think about then turn to page 1. Unravel the truth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781098013035

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Chapter 1

The Star Merica Leads the Way The Name A-MERICAS Is Written in Stone

I learned that there was an article about this rune stone in the Ancient American Magazine (V. Samuelsson, New England’s Narragansett Rune Stone, Ancient American Magazine 16, no. 94 [2012]). It was written by Valdimar Samuelsson, an engineer from Iceland. He believed that the stone was of Icelandic origin, possibly dated AD 1423. Samuelsson theorized that it was a claim stone, in the name of the Egyptian sun god, Ra. I didn’t think he was too far off, other than the origin and the date. I understood that many native groups worship the sun or show respect to it as a deity named Ra.

These ancient runes often had more than one message, and the word rune does mean mystery message. But I was surprised when he showed me a rune that I had not seen before. I was convinced this would negate my plausible interpretation. I have looked at several photos in publications and on the internet and watched documentaries. I noticed something to the left of the rune for S, but since it wasn’t outlined in my sources, I felt it wasn’t anything of interest to the subject (see pg 67 see circled area in upper right corner).

I was wrong, like so many times on this quest, so I regrouped and went forward again. If my interpretation was wrong, then this would prove it. If it had some merit, then the extra rune would fit in somehow. I was pleased with the find. It didn’t hurt; it help out more than I could ever have imagined and resulted in this rewrite of my manuscript.

The rune was very lightly carved or badly damaged. Some see this as an asterisk or a star. Believe it or not, this rune may be the most important of all, standing a little higher than the Sacred X in solving this mystery if the clues are followed correctly.

This rune changed the number of runes from 9 to 10. In Roman numerals, X is 10. It’s the key to telling us where to find a location, which leads to another location. All of this is mapped out for us, starting at Newport Tower.

But the problem may be that the location had a stone that was replaced with a lead tablet. That turns out to be an obstacle that we can live with because the Kensington Rune Stone leads to the same general location, as well as the general location of the lead tablet. How could that be possible if they were all fake and created by different people at different times? One was found in the 1730s, others in 1898, 1971, and 1984. It is not possible that they are counterfeit.

Therefore, the Narragansett, Spirit Pond, and Kensington Rune Stones are genuine in my opinion. I hope to convince you of their authenticity through this outline. If I am correct, it’s only because people who have followed this quest before me have left print copies of the thousands upon thousands of hours of research that they have done.

The first two leads that I followed, the most important to my start in this puzzle, were not recorded in print. These clues came from my grandmother Sarah Merical (the spelling was changed from Mercel, which means keeper of the sea) and from my dear friend Joanna Benecke Townsend. From there, I followed the written trail of authors such as Joan Hope, whose work¹⁴ I found on the internet, along with the book The Last Kings of Norse America by Robert G. Johnson and Janey Westin (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2012). I read Lucile Taylor Hansen’s collection of Native American oral histories, compiled from over forty years of interviews (He Walked the Americas, Legend Press, 1994) and the work of Dr. Barry Fell (America BC, Pocket, June 1989) and Saga America. I read The Book of Mormon (by Joseph Smith, Empire Books), which I consider to be the truest book ever written about the Western Hemisphere, which appears to contain a dating enigma. After my first read of this book, I thought that it made no sense at all, even laughed at it. And I read the works of Frank Joseph (The Lost Worlds of Ancient America [New Page Books, April 2012], Unearthing Ancient America [New Page Books, October 2008]), and others.

It’s not what books we read but how we read them. Possibly, things and dates are not as they appear.

After Ancient American Magazine ran this article, an internet entry was logged by Dr. R. M. de Jonge, director of the Institute for Megalithic Research, based in the Netherlands (Narragansett Rune Stone, www.slideshare.net/rmdejonge, May 2012).¹⁹ In his translation, he assigned a number to each rune, then assigned a letter to each number, then a word or words to each letter. I’ve seen this method before, even have a book about the method, but I never had tried to apply it until now.

The following few pages are my plausible decipherment of the Narragansett Rune Stone in its anagram-message form, followed by Dr. R. M. de Jonge’s decipherment in the Futhark form, followed by a North Pole map.

They explain why I feel that Iceland may not be the only origin of the carvers of the Narragansett Rune Stone. I have included supporting charts and footnotes.

At first, I thought it contained different generations of runes, regional origins, and possibly entries done at different times. For a long time, I believed this. The one thing that troubled me was that it looked like it was all the work of one man. But how? Then I came to believe they were and that the different generations of runes were possibly to symbolize different anniversary events. An unorthodox runic scheme or runic system was possibly formed before any runic scripts was carved here in America.

This stone has direct physical connections to the Kensington Rune Stone and the Spirit Pond Rune Stone. The Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone found off the coast of West Greenland has direct physical connections to the Newport Tower runes and the Narragansett Rune Stone and a relationship to the Kensington Rune Stone and the Spirit Pond Rune Stone.

I learned these things about American runes:

Rune means mystery message. They can be riddles.

The scribes scrambled the words, creating anagrams.

Clans or tribes would change one or more runes for identification or preference.

Even though a new style of rune was introduced, it wasn’t necessarily accepted right away.

*Older styles of runes have been reintroduced.

*Symbols were sometimes used for deception, abbreviations, or to complete a word.

*They could and did mix different styles of runes.

*There were no rune rules written in stone.

Sometimes they did use abbreviations.

We are discovering long forgotten things about runes.

The Roman Catholic Church outlawed the use of runes and punished violators by death.

America’s Ancient Names

Mer (Lelyo-Egyptian)²⁹

Epeiros Occidentalic (Graeco-Roman)²⁹

Asqa-Samal (Punic, Libyan)²⁹

Vinlandic (Church, Latin)²⁹

Meirrica (Celtic) from Mer²⁹

Mer Rika¹⁴

Merica (Egyptian)¹ Mayan¹⁴

Omerika¹⁴ and later

Amerikas

Numbers 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9 back up my hypothesis. In 1362, Norway gave up the Vinland and Greenland colonies as lost without a trace. That is the same year date that is on the Kensington Rune Stone, which has the same Sacred X’s as the Narragansett Rune Stone and the Spirit Pond Rune Stone. Another hypothesis not purported from the Natives but rather from Norway is that the acquisition was almost completed.

Narragansett Rune Stone

Enigma

Rune Means Mystery Message

(The Triumph of the Alphabet, page 9)³⁹

Dr. P. M. de Jong and Mr. Samuelsson both came to the conclusion that had two purposes.

A symbol for gift Venus

A four count (each right angle at the end of a diagonal line equals one unit); could also be the number 4.

Prophecy from God for the Hebrews of Egypt from the time of Moses

One of the problems we have is there is no evidence of Hebrews in Egypt in 16th century B.C. to date.

Why

So could some of our misunderstanding of history be from the way we look at the dates and their nucleus?

You decide

Since runes can carry more than one message, another could possibly be a messenger, four men all… (Richard Nielsen).⁵⁰ He uses an E for a missing runic vowel.

*Possible explanation of R-RR on pages 30 and 51.

Dr. P. M. de Jonge’s plausible interpretation:

Gift of the sun: Rhode Island (red land), now home (property) of the men across the ocean from Iceland, gift of God (1423).

My preliminary plausible secondary decipherment:

Illumination (from Merica) leads to gift as it journeys in its travel to the land of their inheritance by the Sacred Union of their Ancestors (Moses’s people) by the Guiding Light (Merica) as it passes over the sea of ice to the sacred gift by the power of God (1342).

I have seen this method of translation before, even have a booklet on it, but I never tried it until I saw this. Could both related plausible interpretations be a fluke, even with the polar map? Or is there something here? You decide. This is how I see it.

Look at the circled letters: americas; 1364 is the date recorded. This shows the Northwest Passage and the Bering Strait in relation to Asia. Amerika is an alternative spelling for America. There was an Amerika, Germany, and Amerika,²⁵, ⁴⁵ Netherlands, while the Mayans were using the word Merica in the Americas. Across the Atlantic in the English Isles, on the northern end of present-day London, a kingdom was formed that dominated the area for the next 350 years called Merica in AD 584.

"Somewhere in the 14th century, a Franciscan from Oxford, a ‘priest with an astrolabe,’ writes a travelogue about his discoveries in the North Atlantic, calls it the Inventio Fortunata (The Discovery of Fortunata) and in 1364 presents it to the King of England. (The First, False Map of the True North, "Strange Maps: collecting cartographic curiosa, May 24, 2007, http://strangemaps.wordpress.com)

I’m not convinced that it was Nicholas of Lynn, the Franciscan friar, that presented the Inventio Fortunata to the kings of Norway and England in Norway in 1364.

The Greenlanders’ logs claim it was a Minorite friar that exchanged an astrolabe for a testament and headed north. But the records that are passed down refer to him only as a Franciscan friar.³⁵ Nicholas of Lynn was a Carmelite Franciscan friar.¹ Hugh of Ireland was a Minorite Franciscan friar. Both had astrolabes, both were mathematicians, both were most likely schooled at Oxford.

It’s only a speculation that Bishop Ivar Bardson was accompanied by Nicholas of Lynn when the Inventio Fortunata was presented.³⁹ Bishop Gisbrikt of Bergen, an Englishman, is thought to have recommended Lynn as a navigator to Paul Knuttson.³² So there was a lot of English influence, as well as Tollik, also an English name, the stone scribe for the Kensington Rune Stone and it would been understandable that Hugh of Ireland and Bishop Ivan Bardson would have been in the company of their navigator Nicholas of Lynn.¹⁷

The problem with the Icelandic-only origin, as I see it, Vinland gained its independence from Norway in 1262 (an anniversary date of the birth of a king) and began to be known as Merrica or Merica. Merica or Vinland had full rights to have sea-traveling ships. Merica was the mystical star recorded by the people of Qumran, the Essenes, and the Mandaens. They were Nazoreans (Nazarenes), and they or their direct descendants wrote the scrolls that were called Merica, which were buried under Herod’s Temple in AD 68.¹ Other dates recorded are AD 69 and possibly AD 66 (the year of Halley’s Comet). There may have been more than one burial.

In 1261, Greenland agreed to become Norway’s territory; and in 1262, Iceland joined Norway’s monarchy.² Norway expressly forbade Greenland and Iceland from having seagoing ships, according to Pohl, The Vikings (pages 235–242). This was to ensure a monopoly. King Haakon IV claimed sovereignty over all the land from the Baltic Sea to the north (magnetic) pole, including landanus, or new land in 1261.³

A major revenue for Norway was fish, which were supplied to Europe for the days they couldn’t eat red meat.¹⁵ The European waters were being overfished, so this was a gold mine that needed to be protected. Greenland, Iceland, and Merica or Vinland were Christian territories, so why would you take away ships from fishermen? Neither of these two islands had timber. It had to be imported. It could have been to keep things quiet.

Granted, seagoing ships and fishing boats are not the same, but this left Iceland and Greenland isolated and dependent on Norway to pick up the dried fish, ivory, and furs ready for market and bring them supplies in return. They were harvesting ivory from walruses and narwhal (a species of Arctic whales). Russia was moving into Europe with furs and Africa with ivory.¹² This rule or new law had dire consequences in the short number of years that followed, but things were kept quiet for a while.

During the fourteenth century, lumber or timber became scarce. The construction of castles and cathedrals raped the forests during the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries in Europe. During the plague, cremation was outlawed because it took too much lumber. It took one half ton of wood to cremate a body. So the dead were buried in mass graves or dumped into a river to drift away.

By the end of the thirteenth century, the climate started to change. Not in the past five thousand years has the climate changed so fast worldwide. In the Northern Hemisphere, glaciers started to advance around AD 1200, and by AD 1303, the Baltic Sea froze over.¹¹ The cold started sometime around 1170 and peaked in 1607.⁸

Farther south, warm climate trees around the Hudson Bay that had taken root during the warming period, all died off by AD 1200.⁴

Greenland stopped being green due to the climate changes around 1250.¹² The fish that the colonists and Norway depended upon moved south around 1300 because of the colder water. They just headed to warmer water. In 1325, the Icelandic Annals and Greenlanders recorded Advancing ice caps caused trouble for boats to travel to the West. There were no longer any crops to feed themselves and their livestock. Supply ships stopped coming from Norway on a regular basis because it was no longer profitable. Natives started moving south around 1300, including the Navajo from the plains of Canada, possibly by the sign of Halley’s Comet in 1301, arriving in the Southwest in the fifteenth century. In 1348, the sea froze around Iceland.⁹, ⁴⁴

Then the plague hit. Some believe that Greenland was hit by the plague in 1346, before the mainland of Europe, and I believe that’s right.³ It could have traveled from China to Greenland by way of Alaska via the Northwest Passage, near the end of its periodical open season. Around 1365, Nicholas of Lynn or Hugo of Ireland reported that it was only ice-free a few months of the year. Several Natives spoke of traveling by others up the Atlantic to reach China (more about travel to China in later chapters).

In order to understand better, we need to look at today, with the current ice-melting concern. The Medieval Warm Period lasted 450 years. The present one is only 200 years, and acting erratically. Temperatures are rising and lowering, and the Northwest Passage opened again around 2006 after being closed for nearly 650 years. Now, at this point, the opening is not constant.

During the Medieval Warm Period, it was open for about 375 years (see chart). Iceland was most likely ice-free or almost free of ice. There was less ice to melt off from the Dark Ages Cold Period compared to the Little Ice Age. The Dark Ages Cold Period was not as cold and lasted half as long as the Little Ice Age lasted, and the Medieval Warm Period was a lot warmer with less ice and higher temperatures. Greenland lost a lot of its ice.

Global temperature trends from 2500 BC to AD 2040

(Harris-Mann Climatology, 30 December 2012, http://www.longrangeweather.com/global_temperatures.htm

© Harris-Mann Climatology)

The * asterisks as tempest indicators are added by E. G. Tillman.

In the last 4,500 years, the Northwest Passage has been open for 1,800 years.

Northwest Passage

(Wikipedia, 10 May 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File: Northwest_passage.jpg Public Domain

[see page 103 for a 2015 image])

They had violent storms, something we haven’t seen yet. These storms made Katrina and the superstorm Sandy of October 2012 look like welcome spring showers. One of these storms occurred on June 16, 1362, called the Grote Mandrenke, the Great Drowning of Men, which killed over twenty-five thousand people. In the same year, the largest volcanic eruption in Icelandic recorded history occurred that triggered famine in Europe and in Iceland. But before this, the grandmother of all storms in the Western Hemisphere, of that time and since, occurred before the peak of the Medieval Warm Period in 1226. This storm changed all (Mega hurricane; SFEC 9/15/96, page A10.) This storm was recorded by different native groups under different numerical dates depending on their calendar. (The modern word hurricane is from the White Prophet or god Hurukan, meaning the mighty.)³⁶

This storm may have been a merger of two storm cells. At the peak of the Medieval Warm Period, the average temperature was a little higher than it is now, but we may be heading there. From the west in the Pacific, that warm ocean possibly formed a super El Niño. The name refers to the Christ Child and is said to have originated because the first sign occurred near Christmas, in the southern midsummer.²¹ Possibly about the same time, in the overly warm Atlantic Ocean during the hurricane season, a large supercell was formed around the equator heading toward Brazil and the Yucatan. Because the oceans were overly warm then, the storm season possibly started earlier and lasted longer. The two different cells merged into one, around the last days of February 1225, around Peru and Northern Brazil. It created what the natives called the Great Flood of Destruction, and others said, Such an one as never had been known in all the land, slamming into Alabama on the fourth of March, moving northward.

Listening to the legends and researching what has been discovered, I found that this storm covered all of the land, from coast to coast, and lasted three days. It must have taken decades for the storm to build up to this magnitude, much like we are seeing now. It has happened in the past. It will happen again, sooner than we may want to think.

After the storm, the Medieval Warm Period came to an end, and the temperature plunged downward. By the middle of the fourteenth century, Iceland and the East Greenlanders had returned to pagan beliefs. We are not sure why. Most likely, they felt let down by the new faith and Norway. Skeletal remains from cemeteries of this time show massive loss of bone mass and deformities in those born after the climate change and decline. They were starving. Their cattle and other livestock had either starved to death or were slaughtered for food.³²

But on the other side of the island, the West Greenlanders maintained their Christian faith. King Haakon V Magnusson banned any ship from sailing north of Bergen, to Iceland or to any other country paying tribute to Norway with his Rettarbot of 1302, before the Crusades came to an end. But the West Greenlanders must have been receiving supplies and still had cattle and other livestock and horses. So someone was bringing them grain. The only explanation can be their religious faith.

What else could it be? They were plagued with the same climate and weather and no lumber for ships. Pathological analysis shows that even though there was livestock, the poor starved. Famine or plague hit hard in all social classes.

The proof may be found within the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone, dated 1350 and found in 1924. The stone says in part, The Saturday before Rogation Day, raise these cairns, 1350. These three cairns, in a trinity formation, were built prior to the setting of the Rune Stone, which I believe was precarved. The start of Rogation leads up to the three days before Christ’s Ascension Day. These days are days of Sabbath, days of worship, not work. The monuments (cairns) and ceremonial stones (Rune Stones) had to be built and placed before Rogation Day. In this case, the Saturday before Rogation Day, April 25, 1350, being Major Rogation. This is the connection with the Kensington Rune Stone. It had to be placed before April 24, 1362, and the Northwest Passage and Great Lakes were frozen in April. Greenland Annals report that it was colder than average in the years 1343–1362.

After the freeze, plague, storms, famine, and volcanic eruptions, most of those that were still in Iceland headed to the mainland of Europe. There was just nothing there to sustain their lives any longer. Land in Europe became available again after the plague. One could buy land or share-crop. This was the main reason why the Vikings headed to Iceland, so history tells us. Norwegian ships sailing from Norway or coming from Iceland did stop on their reduced number of trips, but taxes were still collected.

The migration out of West Greenland appeared to have occurred in different stages over several years, ending before King Magnus sent the Greenlanders money to build a church. Even though nothing is written, it was most likely a gift to see what could be done to get fresh products back into the market in Europe. Norway as needing money.

There were 7,000 to 10,000 people that had to be shipped out. Some estimates say only 4,000, but this may be the number of the final departure. A knarr ship could carry about 50 passengers plus crew. With 7,000 people to evacuate, that’s 140 loads; 10,000 people makes 200 loads. The question is in two parts: how many ships did their helpers have, and would they risk it in the weather with all the icebergs? Some believe they just walked across the frozen sea. Euro-physics news 33:3 (2002) has a carbon 14 testing of 1355 +/-60 years for a piece of leather.

When West Greenland was abandoned, it just so happened that Ivan Bardson was commissioned by the bishop of Bergen to sail to Greenland to investigate because several years had passed since there had been any report from them. But surely tax ships were sent out before this. His report, dated 1342³² (a one-hundred-year anniversary date of a king’s death), states that the people left in 1341. He found livestock, cattle, horses, sheep, and chickens running wild. The people had returned to pagan beliefs and moved on to Vinland. He slaughtered the livestock and took the meat east. Bishop Ivan Bardson came in the interest of the Roman Catholic Church, not the king of Norway. Knowing the weather conditions of that time, it was too cold for grass to grow for a long period of time. His statement returned to Pagan beliefs could mean another Christian faith other than the Roman Catholic doctrine or dogma. It sounds as if he just missed the last exit, and they didn’t have the time to come back for the livestock from Omerika—distant sea kingdom. Why there is no mention of attempts to collect taxes from West Greenland during those many years is uncertain, unless it was being concealed tax became an issue with Rome. Avignon temporary headquarters attend.

So where did they go? Where do fishermen go? They followed the fish and headed south to warmer waters. It was an economic move as well as a survival move. The port was no longer needed in West Greenland because the Northwest Passage was closing. But either someone returned in 1350, or some moved elsewhere in West Greenland, to place the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone. Another interesting statement in Ivan Bardson’s report was that the former cathedral church of the west settlement was still standing but abandoned. I would think that pagans would have destroyed all signs of Christianity. So if they did receive money to build a new church in 1347,³² then it may have been for a new location.

Why would the king send money to Greenland in 1347 unless he knew it was going somewhere else? The cathedral was still standing. They didn’t need another church or a new church there in Greenland.

Ivan Bardson’s 1342 report must have made it to the king via the bishop of Bergen long before 1347. Another report of West Greenland being abandoned was made in Bergen in 1347. If the climate change wasn’t enough, by 1340, nearly all the western settlement’s 190 farms had been expropriated (seized and held with a lien) by the Roman Catholic Church in lieu of payment for indulgences—remission of temporal punishment still due for a sin after sacramental absolution. The family of the deceased could buy a pass into heaven for the deceased at a heavy price. The farmers became tenant farmers for the church.³² So why not leave for a new start in a Protestant country?

The Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone has very similar features to those found on the Newport Tower (NPT). Even though some argue that the NPT runes look like masonry marks from a rigid tool, I don’t believe it. I’ve worked with masonry tools and trowels while laying mortar or cleaning mortar from stone or trowels.

Saga America by Barry Fell has a good section on both of these runes. If one takes the time and compares the two, they may notice that the Newport Tower runes use a combination of two runes to make one called a bind rune. This was not uncommon. The individual runes that are combined appear to be the same as those found on the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone. I’m not an expert on runes, but there is a similarity between the two (see the following comparison). The Icelandic Annals record very cold years in 1367 through 1379.

Found in West Greenland

New name Omerika, meaning distant sea kingdom. Distant from where? Egypt, Iceland, or Israel?

In 1354, a small squadron of fishing boats was blown off course and landed on Estotiland, a part of Vinland, possibly Newfoundland or Nova Scotia. They were taken to the king. The sole survivor reported that they cultivated grain, made beer, and lived in houses made of stone. There were Latin books in the king’s library (before the printing press). They had towns and castles and carried on trade with Greenland for pitch, sulfur, and peltry.³³ It’s believed that the Latin books belonged to or came from the library of the Greenland bishop. (It was twelve years after Greenland was abandoned. The bishops had started traveling south as early as AD 1121.) The sole survivor made it back home several years later and attracted the attention of Zichmni, who commissioned Antonio Zeno to sail to this land and take the sole survivor as pilot, but he died a few days earlier.³³ Grain to Western Greenland may came from here.

Some believe that the symbols are a date. It has been deciphered as 1336, based on the following explanation. The third, fourth, and fifth runes are each a pedantic staff with a circular axis near the top to represent a 10, as repeatedly found on the Spirit Pond inscription. The sixth rune is s or could be read as two s’s if rotated 180 degrees, thus representing the double-s sound as in sex, the old Norse number 6 (629).

The second rune can be viewed as a bind rune consisting of two t’s, one upright and one inverted. They share the short angular bar, and each resembles the other t’s in the inscription that have only one angular bar. The abbreviation word form is tiutiger = ten decades = 100 (Z435, G293).

The first rune is a bind rune combining s below and t inverted above with the horizontal bar and the angular bar inscribed together. This would be the abbreviation for thu’sund, which is the modern Icelandic word for 1000, as reported in a November 7, 2010, communication with Valdimar Samuelsson of Reykjavik. However, thu’sund in medieval times was based on the long hundred =120, 100 and meant ten long hundreds = 1,200 (G293). The year date would therefore be 1,200 + 100 + 30 + 6 = AD 1336.²⁷

In the book Saga America by Barry Fell, he outlines the date as 1350. I give my understanding on the decipherment of 1350 in chapter 1. Another deciphered date is 1314. Jacques de Molay execution.

I believe both are right. I believe 1350 is the date it was carved, and 1336 the date of an event, or possibly two events, that may have happened. Earlier in this chapter, we saw that Ivan Bardson was commissioned by the bishop of Bergen to sail to West Greenland to investigate because several years had passed since there has been any report from the area. He arrived in 1342. It may have taken several years to remove all the people. The year 1336 may have been the start of the major migration of the general population, following the others that left earlier. In 1350, King Haakon becomes King Haakon the Sixth at age ten, full king at age fifteen.

On August 8, 1341, in Bergen, Norway, Bishop Hakon issued a passport for priest Ivan Baardsson as the bishop’s substitute to Greenland. Following the Law of the Rettarbot of 1302, he could only travel with permission.³⁵ He most likely set sail the following spring, after crew and ships could be assembled. Ivan was later the canon in Bergen.³² Knarrs didn’t travel alone for his safety.

In the next two chapters, I will outline in detail a theory about galactic events that cause events to happen or appear to happen. The year 1336 was the half cycle of Venus and also a date that some believe is on the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone.²⁷ I believe it’s one date of two.

The Newport Tower runes were deliberate, not an accidental formation from a rigid masonry tool, making arch marks or stopping on both sides of a vertical before intersecting. The only major difference is the H, possibly because of the change of location. They did change runes for identification or preference. In Saga America, Barry Fell has translated as HNAKRS. But then the rune for A was overlooked, and his script was which means stool—Bishop’s stool (Cathedral Church, Saga America, page 383; My Futhark Translation, page 31).

It’s very possible that Newport Tower not only acted as a church but also as a lighthouse and calendar for the winter and summer solstices. It probably was also used as a lookout tower and a platform for leaders to address their people. From the top, voices would be carried afar. By this time, things were falling apart for Magnus since he was being looked down upon, and it was going to get worse, much worse. The church Latin name for Merica was Vinlandic (Saga America, page 413). The British blew off the top three feet or more while in retreat.

In the same bay, not far from Newport Tower, is the Narragansett Rune Stone. Its runes are written in an enigma and anagrams but of a different type and style of runes than those found on Newport Tower and on the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone from the same time period, with the exception of two Rs and Ks. Maybe Dr. R. M. de Jonge’s and Mr. Samuelsson’s translation of the four different digits of 1, 4, 2, and 3 are correct.

The two different styles of runes may be because there were two or more different groups of people from different origins, one being of a higher ancient order, but both with a common goal. This just may be the missing link, explaining why the Newport Tower has the appearance of Scandinavian craftsmanship yet built by a different unit of measurement in a different style than that used by the Norsemen. These two different groups may have been working together. And the digits of 1, 4, 2, and 3 could be an anagram whose true meaning may be 1342, the likely date that the last of the West Greenlanders left. That explains why the livestock was still alive. Winter had just ended. They could not have survived the 1341–1342 winter without someone caring for them. Natives would have taken the livestock if they had the time before Ivan Bandson arrived.

If King Magnus did send money for a new church in 1347, then possibly Newport Tower was it. If the West Greenlanders came south to help the economic situation by putting fish products back into the European market, then they came to the right place. Around the point from Newport Tower is Cape Cod. And did they all stay here, or did some move on to someplace else, possibly Florida?

The first time Newport Tower is mentioned on any known map was in 1542, on Verrazzano’s map found in the possessions of the master lockkeeper of maps to King Henry VIII in London. Carbon-14 dating from mortar places the date around 1400, but it is not sure if it’s from the original construction or a repair.⁷ But by far, the best possible evidence that it couldn’t have been those from Iceland may be in the runes that appear to match the Kingittorsuaq Rune Stone.

On October 28, 1354, King Magnus put out an order called Historiske Mendesmaekes to visit Greenland and restore the Christian faith. So he reported to the pope. (The only hint of the orders for this expedition is a Danish copy. The original was destroyed by fire in 1728. No other record of the expedition has been found, up to this date.)²⁹ He commissioned Paul Knutsson, an investigator, lawman, judge, knight, member of the Norwegian Royal Council, and the captain overall. Obviously, a very wise, prudent elderly man, an honorable man, a man of war, a strong and mighty man, a stiff-necked man, prophet, and counselor. Paul’s origin is uncertain. He may not have been from Norway but may have come from Omerika. But he did live in Norway, owning land before he began to work for the king.

He took with him the best knights of Norway, the king’s bodyguard, just possibly for that purpose in 1355. He was accompanied by Nicholas of Lynn, a Carmelite friar with an astrolabe; Harrek, an eloquent orator, composer of stories and mystery messages; and Tollik, a cunning artificer, a carver of words in stone and a master of runes.¹⁰ Paul is never again mentioned in Norway’s records after he leaves in 1355. Nicholas of Lynn’s main job may have been the royal navigator. There were several trips back and forth from Omerica to Norway and Sweden. Year 1355 was the year of an eclipse seen from Norway to the Yucatan.

I would like to take a look at another rune stone that’s in Newport Tower. Here again, some claim that the runes are masonry trowel marks. Up and to the right of the HNAKRS Rune Stone, there is another highlighted above. See pg 35

Clyde Keeler believed the runes stood for IHC. He attributed these possible rune marks to a Christian bishop, Henrikus Gnupson, in 1977.

In 1946, Professor P. Luvfold saw and translated the same thing. Earlier I stated that Professor Luvfold and M. Bjorndal believed that the hidden date was AD 1010 on the HNAKRS Rune Stone. This is the same date that some believe is on the Spirit Pond Rune Stone, but some believe it’s 10 + 10 or 20 years or 1360.

Pairing the year 1010 and the name Henrikus is not possible. Henrikus was known in Scandinavia by his Norse name Erik Gnupson. He was appointed as a bishop by Pope Paschal II in AD 1112.2, 29 The name and date just don’t match here. It’s off by 102 years. Perhaps there is an explanation. Perhaps they weren’t looking at the rune stone from the intended angle.

This stone was placed into the wall in a horizontal position. But the three men that translated the stone did so by starting on the top of the stone and working their way down, as if the stone was meant to be rotated counterclockwise. Doing so, they translated a name that does not correspond to the date. (Runes can be read right to left, left to right, top to bottom, or bottom to top.)

But if we rotated it clockwise, we have something different. I said earlier that I believe that this tower was possibly rebuilt. Perhaps they left a clue to that without realizing it. We know that runes would not be carved on stone by colonial people.

It’s possible that this stone was to stand out and was originally placed in a vertical position to give honor to someone or be a part of a dedication. The original placement could be anywhere. This reading is from bottom to top.

Bind Runes from an earlier generation of runes

If we look at the first two marks , the convex in connection to the vertical line to the right, it’s connected by a line running almost horizontally but with a downward slant. So possibly it’s meant to be a that matches the K on Edward Larsson’s rune alphabet on the next page and on the Kensington Rune Stone. It could also be a reverse < or > which is also a K.²⁹

It’s followed by a vertical line and connected by the same horizontal line that appears as , which looks like a much more ancient H that appears as , so may be K H. The last vertical line of H looks like a 5 that shows up on Edward Larsson’s papers and looks like . With the continuous slanted line we have that is similar to for 5 + 1 or 6 in the date on the Kensington Rune Stone. KH6: King Haakon the Sixth. The last vertical may be a 1.

The generation number for King Haakon was 6. He was the true king of Norway and known as King Haakon I in Sweden. So we have both 6 and 1.

The same name is on the Spirit Pond Rune Stone with the dates of 1360 and 1361. The date on the HNAKRS Rune Stone may be 10 + 10, not AD 1010, twenty years from Haakon’s birth in 1340.

So did it take the two years from 1360 to 1362 to build Newport Tower or 19 yrs? Very possibly, the first time, with all the alignments to solar, lunar, planets, and stars that happen only once a year. But there is a full moon alignment occurring each 18.6 yrs. The moon shines through two window the east and the west at the same time. Most likely the west window had something in it to reflect the light. The last alignment occurred on Dec. 2014,. If we backtrack 35 cycles we end up at 1373. 18.6 years earlier was 1355 eclipse, year Paul Knuttson set sail and Haakon became full king. If Arnold built it then it would have taken 19 yrs to build unless he had a set of plans. Most likely, it was mandated for a double-check for the final elevation of the window with the next year’s alignment. These alignments are precise. Once those alignments and measurements are recorded on the as-built plan, then they didn’t have to wait as long as it’s rebuilt on the same location and only taken a few months.

Edward Larsson’s rune alphabet

Photo from the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics, and Folklore Research in Umea

I have a hard time imagining Governor Benedict Arnold, in need of the alignments, spending extra money for a two-year construction experience. But the as-built plans may have been passed down to him after John Dee’s death via a holder of the plans if Dee didn’t have it rebuilt during his lifetime. Dee very possibly received the as-built plans from the messenger of God, an angel who gave him instructions during one of their several visits. Dee did receive tangible items, much like Joseph Smith did later. Dee draws the most accurate map of the East Coast that any Englishman has ever drawn, and he was never here.³⁰ It’s possible that he received a map of Narragansett Bay and the location of the ruins of Newport Tower. Dee could have drawn his map from a copy of Hugo or Hugh of Ireland’s maps, passed down to Dee though the messenger from God. (Dee claimed Hugo of Ireland wrote Inventio Fortunata.)⁴¹, ⁴²

Dr. Barry Fell, in his book Saga America, raises a question about Newport Tower and its construction and gives his opinion of the answer. He asks, Were they American Norsemen who had not yet given up the Christian faith, an earlier offshoot of the West Greenland Settlement? Or were they men from the East Greenland Settlement, who never gave up the faith? Or were they yet other Norsemen—such as, for example, the men on board Paul Knutsons’s ship—who were unaccountably absent from Norway for eight years (1355–1362)? The records of the expedition have not yet been found.²⁹

Now I would like to draw your attention to the