The probable origin of the Kensington Runestone's runes has been found: The runic alphabet from the stone, with its distinctive "hooked X," was taught in a mid-19th century Swedish calligraphy school and the textbook its instructor published. It includes "Masonic" characters like those used by the Larsson brothers, whose runic writing had previously been the only other known runic use of the "hooked X." Magnus Källström of the National Antiquities Office in Sweden published the results of his investigation last week. The key was in an 1876 textbook published by Eric Ström, an itinerant calligrapher (!): Through a rave review that was published in Medelpads Allehanda on September 2 of the same year, it is also possible to form an idea of the content of this writing. In the part devoted to runic learning, Ström is said to have, among other things, reproduced a couple of runic alphabets, one of which, according to the anonymous article author, consisted of "some very strange letters and signs for numbers, which must have been imagined by some scoundrel." be "ancient writing"" This can hardly have been anything other than a reproduction of the Kensington runes and the pentadic numerals that appear on the Kensington Stone. Eric Ström was also a Templar--but not the kind you are thinking of. He was a Good Templar, a member of a temperance society. He had been teaching his various alphabets for a long time, after learning runes (or, rather, an eccentric local approximation of them) from a single person somewhere in the middle of northern Sweden. This practice sheet is from 1864: According to Källström, the alphabets changed over time due to copying errors, so there is an older set from the middle 19th century and a younger set from the late 19th century. "A funny fact is also that the Kensington Stone belongs to this younger group! Since Edward Larsson uses the older variant as late as 1885, we have here an indication that the Kensington Stone is actually not older than that."
And so, it seems likely that this will put to bed the Kensington Runestone "mystery"--or it would if there weren't an industry devoted to exploiting it.
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Guess What
12/17/2022 01:39:42 pm
You know what Wolter is going to say to this...
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Jim
12/18/2022 09:27:49 pm
He's going to stick his fingers in his ears and go lalalalalalalalalalalalal,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Paul
12/17/2022 04:23:40 pm
This is only the most recent evidence turned up over the last decade or so, in Sweden, by a handful of researchers. But even though the evidence clearly points to a 19th century fabrication, there will still be the many who won’t and can’t let it go. Kind of like they are holding s*** in their hand and you tell them they are holding s*** in their hand but they will insist that they are holding diamonds.
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Harold Edwards
12/17/2022 05:56:37 pm
The handwriting used by Olof Ohman the "discoverer" of the Kensington Runestone in a 1879 letter matches the cursive letters used by Ström. Maybe a coincidence, but another of a plethora of coincidences that surround this fake artifact.
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Jim
12/18/2022 11:30:56 am
Claims that Olof Ohman was a simple uneducated Swedish immigrant who couldn't recognize runes kind of fall flat with such obviously practiced handwriting.
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1/6/2023 06:12:23 pm
Olof Ohman's handwriting, compared to the Larsson paper, shows quite a bit of variation. Why do we assume they are from 1885? They have never been positively dated. They could have been produced AFTER the date on the KRS. No one knows.
Harold Edwards
12/24/2022 11:45:53 am
Actually the runes on the Larsson brothers’s letters are still the best fit for those on the Kensington Runestone. These letters also contain the same pentadic numerals used on the runestone. The hooked X rune used for the sound of the letter “a” has also been found in a building at the Ersk-Mats farm. These date to 1877 and this farm is about 25 miles northwest of Olof Ohman’s home town of Langby.
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Jim
12/24/2022 04:21:28 pm
Off topic but, Harold, I see Gunn (Bob Voyles) has brought up his metal "medieval" artifact with you and immediately dropped the subject when you mentioned Metallurgical analysis.
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Harold Edwards
12/24/2022 06:21:53 pm
It is likely you both are wrong. The high oxygen content suggests much of the sample is not a metal. Most likely there is more than one substance present--say rusted iron with a clay coating. He needed to describe in detail and photograph the sample he sent to the lab as well as show from where he took it on the iron object. I think he found it with his metal detector, so the sample probably has a high percentage iron alloy. Proper analysis would include metallographic microscopy to examine the textures of the iron/steel. Most Medieval iron objects contain considerable amounts of slag trapped inside the metal since the metal was never completely melted.
Jim
12/26/2022 06:10:40 pm
Actually Mr. Voyles found it the Ohman way, in a hole made by a tree falling over.
Harold Edwards
12/27/2022 03:42:31 pm
There is too much carbon for a steel object. It could be from carbonate minerals or more likely, organic material such as wood adhering to the iron object.
Jim
12/27/2022 06:26:08 pm
My analysis is a little simpler, the test results say it has aluminum in it, therefore it is modern, period, end of story.
Kent
12/30/2022 09:10:37 pm
Jim.
Jim
1/1/2023 10:54:06 am
Did anyone know that most common interior walls in America today are clad in metal ?
Kent
1/4/2023 11:51:07 am
Jim.
Expected Better
12/18/2022 06:42:43 pm
The quoted section contains hearsay and an anonymous author. Not the level of scholarship I've come to expect from Jason Colavito.
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Rock Knocker
12/24/2022 06:38:35 pm
The quoted section does not include any of Jason’s words, rather it is the translation of a portion of the report he references. (A holiday season blog hardly allows for a detailed translation and discussion of the work.) Jason is merely including the translated text as a sample of the referenced work - did you not see the link? Did you not click on it and use google to translate the report in order to check on its “scholarship”?
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Why I Expected Better
12/31/2022 04:24:59 pm
@Tucker, Scott, and Nick
Kent
1/2/2023 04:22:32 am
"I know what you can do with one of the kendo sticks used to hold the paper together. Turned sideways of course."
Kent
12/25/2022 12:05:10 pm
Why don't you get in the Dewshmobile and travel back to the 19th century? Take it up with the publisher?
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An Over-Educated Grunt
12/25/2022 05:22:12 pm
This being a comments section on the Internet, I DEFINITELY didn't expect better of a commenter who should've noticed literally everything they complained about was from a block quote someone else wrote. I would tell you who wrote it, but I believe determining that fact would be a useful test of your journalistic skills.
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Harley W. Misson
12/18/2022 07:04:52 pm
All made for a terrific and fun rabbit hole, but you may have finally put the final nail in the coffin.....of a logical conclusion. Doesn't mean this will go away any time soon. I appreciate your posts.
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David
12/19/2022 11:57:51 am
So the hooked X becomes the fucked X.
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LeifFraNorden
12/19/2022 11:27:28 pm
As the Kensington Stone is long ago dead and buried, another nail in the coffin is superfluous. Instead, this discovery sheds light on an academic debate– whether rune writing was a 19th century reinvention or whether it somehow survived since the middle ages in the hinterlands of Sweden.
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William Joseph James Johanson
12/20/2022 07:39:57 am
Ignatius Donnelly's utopian community Niniger City, MN included a Good Templars lodge. He was alive when the rune was discovered and never commented on it. That is strange in relation to his book "Ragnorok." I always suspected he was involved.
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Dale Gribble
1/1/2023 09:52:38 am
"Niniger City"? Wow, Donnelly was a terrible speller! Yet he somehow foresaw the future importation of Somali "refugees" who travel back and forth between Minnesota and ... Somalia.
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Kent
12/20/2022 12:17:09 pm
Wolter hasn't updated his website since January of this year (2022). It would be acting against interest to comment on this. Probably he's on some super-secret Templar business.
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Jim
12/22/2022 02:11:52 pm
Wolter responds on his blog, claiming the new find supports his version of events,,,, he is in the running for snake oil salesman of the year.
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Kent
12/25/2022 01:34:23 am
Wasn't there when I posted. Thank you for that, well done.
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LeifFraNorden
12/22/2022 06:11:48 pm
As the Kensington Stone is long ago dead and buried, another nail in the coffin is superfluous. Instead, this discovery sheds light on an academic debate– whether rune writing was a 19th century reinvention or whether it somehow survived since the middle ages in the hinterlands of Sweden.
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blah-blah-blah
12/23/2022 06:16:17 am
https://www.dailygrail.com/2022/12/ancient-apocalypse-and-the-ugly-battle-between-alternative-and-mainstream-archaeology/
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Jim
12/26/2022 12:01:02 pm
Scott Wolter wrongly accuses the Roman Catholic Church of burning Icelandic people for the use of witchcraft runes. Said runes were used for the of casting of " Fretrúnir" or "Farting spells".
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Jim
12/29/2022 07:09:23 pm
New blog post for Wolter :
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Jim
12/30/2022 11:19:58 am
With Scott Wolter's New Blog-post comes an all new version of the Templars religious structure, apparently the Templars were Jewish and followed the Jewish religious practices.
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Kent
12/31/2022 06:21:16 pm
Wolter should learn Swedish before he starts commenting on Hebrew. What a fucking idiot. Say the word backwards? Didn't Led Zeppelin have a problem with that? Turn me on, dead man.
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Kent
12/31/2022 10:55:12 pm
Jim.
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Paying Attention
1/1/2023 03:12:17 pm
[The first coded word in the KRS inscription refers to the Baptistry. 8 GON Ter. Octagon Tower. The Baptistry was already in existence when the KRS was carved in 1362. The use of the Anglo-Saxon foot in the construction of the Baptistry dates it prior to 1305. Cartography pushes
Jim
1/3/2023 01:46:00 am
I am speaking to Wolter's version of dualism, think holy trinity but with two, not real dualism.
Kent
1/4/2023 11:59:06 am
Jim.
Jim
1/4/2023 01:41:30 pm
Dummy up you fool. Real dualism involves conflicting entities such as God and the Devil, not 2 co-operating entities such as Wolter's nonsense.
Kent
1/4/2023 05:02:51 pm
Jim.
Jim
1/4/2023 08:53:51 pm
Hello Paying Attention, I disagree with your statements.
Paying Attention
1/4/2023 11:39:28 pm
Hi Jim,
Kent
1/5/2023 12:47:50 pm
Jim.
Joe Scales
1/5/2023 01:16:53 pm
"I will never respond to you again, please allow me the same courtesy."
Jim
1/5/2023 03:14:12 pm
Your not Paying Attention are you ? If you are, I would ask you to explain " Ogdoad " in detail.
Reading Comprehension Lesson
1/6/2023 07:01:51 am
JIM
Kent
1/7/2023 12:02:03 am
Oh Anthony Warren, the name by which you are best known. You are a lying simpering sniveling kicked to the curb bint. You are simply paraiddlying as always, taking orders from your neighbor Sam's cellphone as you go on your mail route in the 1970s summer.
Jim
1/7/2023 11:27:38 am
Paying attention, your question : "Why are you and the object of your obsession, Wolter talking about dualism? ",,,can be answered thusly :
Kent
1/7/2023 12:45:36 pm
Jim.
Paying Attention
1/7/2023 03:47:12 pm
You're missing the point, Jim. Wolter is speaking about the wrong concept. Apparently trying to salvage his penis/vagina/womb speculation in the face of his disciples pointing out Christian gnosticism. Most folks aren't familiar with gnosticism and think dualism has something to do with Hamilton and Burr. Lol
Jim
1/7/2023 06:03:34 pm
Another thing, Paying attention, that both Kent and Wolter do when they have lost an argument is to try to change the topic, often with gratuitous ad hominem attacks.
Jim.
Jim
1/8/2023 10:00:08 am
"You're missing the point, Jim." Actually I am not missing the point,you are. Harold's hard evidence concerning the calcite would appear to be completely unassailable. If anyone out there can disprove it I would like to see them do it, Wolter certainly won't ! The KRS has been undeniably proven to be a hoax. Be it Wolter's nonsense or your nonsense, it is all a Templar tempest in a teapot, it's all a pile of rubbish.
Joe Scales
1/9/2023 11:09:51 am
"...with Joe now being resurrected to agree with Kent."
Jim
12/31/2022 10:34:16 am
I have good news and bad news for you today.
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12/31/2022 10:35:10 am
Wolter published my submission but edited out the part about how he was a football major who played geology and The Expert Witness was found by a court to not know his agates.
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Please Enlighten the Group
1/12/2023 08:08:31 pm
[Soft BoobooDecember 30, 2022 at 2:27 AM
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Soft Booboo (kent)
1/13/2023 09:54:21 pm
"Please tell us what Anthony has lied about?
Death Bescumbs Her
1/15/2023 09:26:28 pm
"Scott, this no doubt will shock you, but my name is not "Harold". Might be hard for you to believe, but there is more than just one person out there who think's you're at best an idiot and at worst a fraud."
Jim
1/2/2023 11:19:53 am
Wolter absconds with Christianity's Holy Trinity, Awards it to either the Templars or the Hebrews,,, or perhaps both ?
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Harold Edwards
1/2/2023 02:39:31 pm
There is a documentary series on Netflix called Murder Among the Mormons. It is about the document forger Mark Hofmann who is considered the most prolific and successful document forger known. He was finally caught when he committed two murders to coverup his activities.
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Kent
1/4/2023 12:14:31 pm
"their decedents"
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Jim
1/4/2023 12:19:44 pm
Nice, why does no one ever get to see Wolter's evidences ?
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Kent
1/16/2023 04:15:25 pm
Because it's
Harold Edwards
1/4/2023 12:52:34 pm
There is another striking parallel between Hofmann and Olof Ohman. Both men got the idea for committing document forgery from fictional accounts. In Hofmann’s case he had read Irving Walllace’s novel “The Word” about the forging of a unknown Gospel. In Ohman’s case he read a short story in the Swedish language newspaper, Svenska Amerikanska Posten published on August 8, 1898 called “En Runsten”–“A Runestone” about a farmer in Sweden forging a runestone. The Kensington Runestone was first shown to Ohman’s neighbors in August of 1898 and later in September of 1898. Evidently both men lacked the imagination to even conceive of convincing forgeries, and that lack of imagination may be why they resorted to forging work instead of creating original works to express themselves.
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LeifFraNorden
1/6/2023 01:41:36 am
The relevant parts of John Gran’s confession are recorded in a taped conversation involving his daughter, son, and grandson made in 1967. [1] They recall conversations with their father (and grandfather) from the late 1920s. Gran of course recalled events on the 1890s.
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Jim
1/4/2023 01:19:47 pm
Fabulist Hjalmar Holland, I like it !
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Harold Edwards
1/4/2023 04:36:31 pm
The affidavits were collected by Dr. Knut Hoegh during his investigation of the Kensington Runestone for the Norwegian Society of Minneapolis in 1909. The originals were lost but the first record of them I found was in the Minneapolis Tribune on August 25, 1909. They were shown in public at the Minnesota State Fair in September and later in a public meeting of the Executive Council of the Minnesota Historical Society on December 13, 1909. Holand gave copies of them to the Society a few weeks later. These are now in the archives. Ohman admitted to signing his to Winchell in 1910 and to Andrew Fossum in 1911.
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Jim
1/4/2023 03:09:46 pm
The word aluminum by and of itself precludes the notion that non metallic substances such as aluminum oxides are present and describes only the metal aluminum.
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Kent
1/4/2023 05:14:55 pm
Jim.
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Harold Edwards
1/4/2023 04:42:55 pm
You are also conflating the affidavits signed for Hoegh in 1909 with those signed for Holand in 1910. The latter were on the dimensions of the aspen tree. These were published in Winchell's report. Winchell knew of the 1909 affidavits but ignored them. His fact pattern about the discovery is different from that in the 1909 affidavits as to the month, who was present, the place it was discovered on or near Ohman's farm, and where the runestone was displayed after its discovery.
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Kent
1/5/2023 06:26:05 pm
Winchell is also much less strident and emphatic on the question of authenticity than Wolter. Wolter insists that he has actually read Winchell's book, but I have and I think Wolter has not. It wouldn't be the first time he lied. Don't buy agates from him and don't dive with him. Also don't hire him. As to his wife's OnlyFans page, you're on your own.
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E,P, Grondine
1/7/2023 03:27:24 pm
If I remember correctly, the Kensijgton characters had toolmarks from a half inch chisel.
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Kent
1/9/2023 06:19:22 am
Objected to as not best evidence, incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial.
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Does Too
1/9/2023 08:13:43 pm
KENT
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kent
1/11/2023 11:15:48 am
Yes Anthony, I saw that. You are mental, I must say. So let's tally up the score so far. Anthony being mental, that ship has sailed. Perfectly good Swedish words that make sense in context are actually a misspelling of a Greek word used to represent an Egyptian concept. THAT'S your position, mental?
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Harold Edwards
1/11/2023 12:50:09 pm
Henrik Williams transliterates the runes to
Kent
1/11/2023 09:59:20 pm
Harold, good as far as it goes, but I think we can all agree that Anthony Warren knows more about Swedish than any Swedish person due to his 42 year streak of reading 2 to 5 books a day, every day, and his 5 state championships. Also he paid to have a poem published, so no fool he!
Kent
1/22/2023 05:20:55 pm
Jeepers Christ Anthony the mental just doesn't stop with you.
Jim
1/22/2023 01:07:48 pm
Knowing Scott Wolter never has had an original thought in his head and always "borrows" other people's work to portray as his own research, I always wondered where all the Egyptian Pharaoh nonsense came from.
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Kent
1/24/2023 01:47:59 pm
Jim.
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Jim
1/22/2023 01:44:41 pm
More on Ralph Ellis:
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Kent
1/24/2023 06:52:54 pm
And your mom, who took it like a champ, definitely in the union, spoke highly of you. When she could. Jim.
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Jim
3/4/2023 08:53:40 am
Wolter gets chewed up on twitter again.
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