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Later in the summer, Professor Johannes Brondsted, a Viking expert from Denmark, will stop by and look over the findings. He will also judge other "Norse" relics (mostly suspect) such as "mooring holes" on Cape Cod, and the Kensington stone, with its alleged runic inscriptions, which was found in Minnesota...
...rune stone-so called because the inscription is in one of the ancient Scandinavian runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...
...there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that a lost and frightened traveler would take the time to do so in grim earnest...
...engraving from a sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...
...extinct culture higher than the present Eskimo culture; became certain that Eskimos and Red Indians are kindred stocks. In May, Ethnologist Herbert W. Krieger of the Smithsonian Institution went to the Yukon to elaborate Dr. Hrdlicka's preliminary diggings. Before leaving, Mr. Krieger gave his opinion of the runic inscriptions on a boulder near Spokane, Wash., which some had held recounted a battle there between Indians and Norsemen in 1010 A. D. (TIME, Oct. 11). Mr. Krieger thought the "runes" were Indian ideographs, recording migrations up the Columbia River for food...