Scott Wolter, a Minnesota geologist thinks he has additional information that may point toward the famous Kensington Rune Stone being authentic.
The Pink Flamingo is a staunch believer in the still fringe archaeological theory of ancient visitors to North America. The simple fact that we have an increasingly ancient Clovis culture springing from such diverse locations as New Mexico and South Carolina point to the fact that the Ancients were into travel, big time. It should be noted that there are some wild and crazy “fringe” theories, but there are some fascinating aspects of very ancient America that defy the current vogue in archaeology. When The Pink Flamingo was in high school, the history of Roman, Post-Roman, and Pre-Roman Britain was considered “fringe”. Today it is status quo.
The Pink Flamingo is also a staunch advocate of Cultural Diffusion.
Naturally the status quo Columbus “Discovered” America bunch, many of whom still don’t like to acknowledge the Viking expeditions to “Vineland” and Greenland, think the Kensington Rune is a hoax. The Pink Flamingo does not.
“...Through the decades since Olof Oman claimed to have discovered the stone on his Douglas County land, historians and archaeologists have disputed its authenticity. It was a fairly elaborate prank, they said, and a son of Ohman’s neighbor fueled the skepticism when he said his father “confessed” to him that he had helped Oman make the runic forgery.
The dispute has raged since, though not so much in Kensington, a town of fewer than 300 people about 20 miles from Alexandria, where it’s a matter of economic development. A few years back, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press took note of Runestone Auto Care, the Runestone Apartments and other namesake businesses, and residents seemed “as rune-struck as ever.”
“But it’s not about belief,” Wolter said in a telephone interview. “It’s about evidence. There is no evidence consistent with it being a hoax, and I don’t think anybody who hears my lecture walks away thinking it’s a hoax.”
Wolter was hired to test the stone about a decade ago by the Runestone Museum in Alexandria, where it’s been on display. He is convinced that his studies since of weathering and comparisons to ancient texts prove the stone is ancient.
As to the “confession” that neighbor John Grand supposedly made to his son, he asks, “Did (the investigators) ask the follow-up questions?” And whenever anybody did ask the elder Grand for conspiracy details, “he said, ‘Go ask Oman,’ and Oman would say, ‘That’s a bunch of humbug.’
“What I think was going on is John Grand was jealous of the attention that Oman was getting.”
Wolter co-authored “The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence” in 2005, and his latest research is recounted in the just-published book, “The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America.”
His research was featured in a documentary, “Holy Grail in America,” which premiered in September on the History Channel. More information on Wolter’s work is available at his Web site, www.hookedx.com.
Among his findings: four more stones at various locations in this country “directly related to the Kensington Rune Stone,” and a two-story round tower in Rhode Island with an intriguing feature: “It points to Kensington.”
Wolter also believes that misinterpretation of one runic inscription led to the assumption that the visitors were, well, just visiting. He suggests instead that the rune-covered marker “was a land claim. They were not just on a journey of discovery, but a journey of acquisition.”
Another misreading of the runic text suggested that the Norsemen had been attacked and were “red with blood and dead.” Instead, Wolter believes, they wrote they were “red with blood and death,” which could have been their way of saying they suffered from the plague.
As to Columbus arriving in 1492, Wolter believes that the Italian explorer also was a Knight Templar and “knew all about the new world,” despite the generally accepted historical judgment that he stumbled into the new land looking for the East Indies.
“He had a map,” Wolter said….”
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