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Teric
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Dang, that's something else! VERY impressive, Aslaug. Thanks for sharing that--I'd love to go see that for myself, if I could.
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Aslaug
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Location: Slagelse, Denmark
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| Sigurd Volsung wrote: | Okay now that's just damn cool. Makes me wish that Minnesota could got our Kensington Rune Stone back and do the same thing.
Our stone is currently in Stockholm if my information is up to date. Anyone who has ever heard of the stone knows the controversy behind it, though from what I gather the most recent research says that it is the genuine article. |
I know of the Kensington stone, Sigurd...and once every twenty years or so, someone claims it's genuine. The debate will probably never end, but I personally belong to the group of people saying that I find it -extremely- unlikely that 14th century Swedish explorers (not 10th or 11th century vikings) sent by the King to find and map Greenland and who got lost, wrote perfect 19th century grammar. It is true ... I admit that ... that the unusual letters and words have been found in certain medieval texts as well, but never together like this. It also includes a modern abbrevation (AVM for Ave Maria). IF the Kensington Stone is genuine ... which I really believe it isn't ... it was set by Christian Swedish explorers in the middle ages, about one hundred years before Christopher Columbus allegedly 'found' America. I prefer to think of it that the Native Americans found America and that Columbus was a few thousand years late...
The Kensington Stone is a fascinating piece because it is so hotly debated, but while its authenticity cannot be completely disproven, all extant evidence points to the contrary. Sadly. It would've been pretty cool. |
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Sigurd Volsung
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Well the thing with the Kensington is that there are no dialect studies of 19th century to compare it with, and the particular alphabet is considerably older than what was known by the farmer who found it. I'm going by the studies of the material weathering on the stone itself. *Shrug*, I would like to think it was the genuine article.
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AmigaDragon
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Hopefully you'll get the opportunity to put your name on a project that nice sometime not too far off.
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