ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The Kensington Runestone is once again in the limelight. This time, as part of a documentary set to air on The History Channel this fall. Andy and Maria Awes with Committee Films, ...
Henrik Williams is a good sport. Fielding an attempt to compare ancient Viking rune stones with something more 21st-century, he rose to the occasion. Rune stones "are a mixture of the Star Tribune, ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The Kensington Runestone is once again in the limelight. This time, as part of a documentary set to air on The History Channel this fall. Andy and Maria Awes with Committee Films, ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- It's often called a "Minnesota Mystery." Throughout the years much has been made about the mystique behind the Kensington Runestone. Does it really date back to the 14th century, ...
Per press release, “Were Norsemen the first Europeans to explore the Minnesota-Great Lakes and surrounding area more than a century before Christopher Columbus? Some scholars and fervent theorists ...
Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the Vikings were here ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- The mystery of the Kensington Runestone is about to get a whole lot bigger. Images of the controversial stone, which is either one of the most important historical artifacts in ...
KENSINGTON, Minn - For more than a hundred years, people have debated whether the Kensington Runestone is real or fake. Now, a playwright with ties to the Kensington area is bringing all that history ...
Editor’s Note: Performances of “Runestone: A Rock Musical” have been canceled the weekend of May 14-15 due to COVID cases within the artistic team. Much discussion is afoot about how history is taught ...
The year was 1898. It was fall, and it was time to clear land for the spring planting. On a small 40-acre farm in central Minnesota, Olof Ohman and his two sons, Olof Jr., age 11, and Edward, age 10, ...
KENSINGTON, Minn. (AP) -- The descendants of the Swedish farmer who claimed to have found the Kensington Runestone in 1898 have broken their silence to say Olof Ohman wasn't the sort of man who would ...
ALEXANDRIA (AP) - Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the ...
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