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- A Minnesota Mystery - Gives full translation of Kensington Runestone's inscription, summarizes the controversy regarding its authenticity. Article by Lisa Primerano, from TheHistoryNet's Historic Travel column, May 1997.
columbiad.com/historictraveler/articles/1997/0597_text.htm
- A Talk on the Kensington Runestone - Announcement on the OldNorseNet list of a talk by Michael Zalar, scheduled for the 101st anniversary of the Kensington Runestone's discovery, leads to a week of debate.
www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/1999/II/msg00673.html
- Debunking the Kensington Stone Mystery - Written for an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Timothy Mills, who believes that the word "opdagelse" is the fatal flaw.
www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/webcourse/lost/projects97/ken1.htm
- Geologist thinks Kensington Runestone not a hoax - Scott Wolter is convinced that the controversial runestone could not have been carved in 1898. Article by Peg Meier in the Star Tribune.
www.neara.org/ROS/KRS.html
- Is the Kensington Stone the Genuine Article? - Keith and Kevin Massey consider the inscription "AVM".
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/keithngail
- J.A. Holvik and the Kensington Runestone: A Study in Ethnic, Religious, and Community Identity - Concordia professor J.A. Holvik devoted his scholarly career to debunking the Kensington Runestone. His arguments are those still used today by critics.
www.cord.edu/dept/teachatcord/centennial/Sprunger1997.htm
- Kensington Rune Stone Discussions - Subtitled "Why Kensington Runestone Is Authentic." Yuri Kuchinsky's contributions to some rather heated arguments on Usenet.
www.trends.net/~yuku/tran/tkrs.htm
- Kensington Runesmith - Peter Sjolander offers a working translation and an earlier attempt, both of which are very different from the usual translations. Includes rune graphics.
www.sjolander.com/VIKING/RUNE/futhark/default.htm
- Kensington Runestone - "Some people believe that the stone is legitimate, but then again, some people believe that Elvis Presley is alive."
www.exit109.com/~bueide/eric/rune.html
- Kensington Runestone Home Page - Features photos, transcription and translation, Kensington Runestone FAQ, answers to common objections, bibliography. By Bill Hoyt.
www.geocities.com/epigraphy/kensington/kensington.htm
- Kensington Runestone: Thorsteinn's arguments - Two-part answer to a critic, from the OldNorseNet mailing list.
www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/1999/II/msg00709.html
- Kensington, again! - Moderator of the OldNorseNet list states baldly that the stone was produced in 19th-century America, and therefore is of no interest except as a delusion.
www.hum.gu.se/arkiv/ONN/2000/II/msg00154.html
- Midwest explored by Scandinavians in Middle Ages, linguist asserts - Cornell News Service reports on Robert A. Hall's book "The Kensington Rune-Stone: Authentic and Important: A Critical Edition."
www.news.cornell.edu/science/Sept95/st.runestone.html
- Response to Dr. James Knirk's Essay on the Kensington Runestone - Richard Nielsen rebuts an earlier essay in the journal Scandinavian Studies which had dismissed the Kensington Rune Stone as a forgery, based on the runic symbols used. 74 pages, 438K, in PDF.
www.byu.edu/sasslink/pdf/krs.pdf
- Runestone Examined: Real or Hoax? - Scott Wolter and Sherry Veglahn present American Engineering Testing's report on the Kensington Runestone. Although most of the runes appear to have been retooled, the deterioration of the carved surfaces is consistent with the stone having been subject to prolonged weathering.
www.amengtest.com/news/01winter/runestone.html
- Runestone Hill Area Map - Shows where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington and Alexandria.
tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?infact=2&outfact=2&act=move&on=CITIES&on=majroads&on=miscell&on=places&on=interstate&on=statehwy&on=ushwy&tlevel=-&tvar=-&tmeth=i&mlat=45.8112793&mlon=-95.6609497&msym=redpin&mlabel=Runestone+Hill&murl=&lat=45.8298073&lon=-95.5174026&wid=0.282&ht=0.282&conf=mapnew.con
- Runestone Hill Topographic Map - Interactive map shows land features, and where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington. Requires JavaScript and a 4.0 or later browser.
www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=45.811&lon=-95.6601&size=m&s=50
- Tests suggest Kensington Runestone is authentic - Report on scholarly findings presented at the Midwest Archaeology Conference held in November 2000. Associated Press article.
www.brainerddispatch.com/stories/121100/new_1211000032.shtml
- The Kensington Rune Stone - William Bakken finds Blegen's arguments convincing, i.e., that "expert runologists" have pronounced the inscription a fraud and that people capable of this level of forgery were present in the Kensington area in the 1890s. Bibliography is longer than the article.
members.aol.com/bakken1/viking/vikkrs.htm
- The Kensington Rune Stone - Full text of the preliminary report to the Minnesota Historical Society by its Museum Committee, presented May 9, 1910. In HTML or page images, your choice.
memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbum:@field(DOCID+@lit(M0866h26))
- The Kensington Runestone - RealAudio and transcript of 1998 Minnesota Public Radio feature story.
news.mpr.org/features/199811/24_lehmanng_runestone-m/index.shtml
- The Kensington Runestone - Avocational archaeologist and epigrapher J. Huston McCulloch attacks the theory that the engraver of the Kensington stone clumsily invented a rune to represent the late Latin letter j.
www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm
- The Kensington Runestone - Ongoing investigation of the artifact, including a growing library of original documents. By KRS buff Michael Zalar.
www.geocities.com/m_zalar
- The Kensington Stone - Matt Armstrong reviews Ole Godfred Landsverk's book "The Discovery of the Kensington Runestone: A Reappraisal of the Circumstances under which the Stone was Discovered."
www.ukans.edu/wcb/students/marmstro/modules/page1.html
- The Painful Birth of New Paradigms - Scientific reaction to the Kensington Runestone is a case study in resistance to new ideas.
www.ripsawnews.com/2001.08.15/entertainment.html
- The Runestone - Three-part interview of Michael Zalar about the "AVM Stone" hoax, and about the naysayers of the Kensington Runestone.
www.anomalist.com/gonzoscience/avm1.html
- The Story of the Kensington Runestone - William P. Holmen briefly outlines the history of the controversial stone, and mentions the theory that the Norse explorers may have intermarried with the Mandan Indians.
kensingtonmn.com/runestonepg.html
- Verified at Last: The Strange and Terrible Story of the Kensington Runestone - Dr. Richard Nielsen's monumental paper supporting the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone, published in the peer reviewed journal Scandinavian Studies, has thus far met with an uncomfortable silence.
www.ripsawnews.com/2001.08.15/feature.html
- Vikings in Central North America? - The Viking Lady (Christie Ward) says that the Vinland Map and Kensington and Heavener Runestones are all hoaxes. She believes that Olof Ohman planted the stone and that Holand's translation is bogus.
www.vikinganswerlady.org/vkhoaxes.htm
- Vikings in the Midwest - Written as an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Vincent J. Meckstroth. Tries to be objective, but says that proponents of the stone's authenticity merely seem to be educated and scholarly, whereas dismissing the stone immediately as a hoax is "good archeology."
www.uiowa.edu/~anthro/webcourse/lost/vikingbrf.html
- Vinland Center Rune Stone - A translation of the Kensington Rune Stone by Peter Sjolander. Contends that the stone marks the exact center of the northern hemisphere and longitudinal center of North America, and that therefore Redminland was all of North America.
www.sjolander.com/viking/essays/runeston.htm
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