- American runestones - The Rune Blog
This entry was posted in Runic America and tagged Barrett Lake stone, Brittingham stone, Elbow Lake, Escalon stone, Kensington, Mahone Bay stone, modern runes, Muir Knoll stone, Patricia Benson, Ramsund, runestones, Sö 101, The AVM stone, the Grant County Museum and Historical Society in Elbow, The Kensington runestone, Vancouver, Vanier Park
- Arizona rune stone carved in phony Old Baltic | The Rune Blog
This is a short version of my pre-publication draft with the same title: Arizona runestone carved in phony Old Baltic (pdf) In southern Arizona, some 30 miles north of the Mexican border, lie the Mustang Mountains
- The Runestone on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts
The Runestone on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts is one of the least known and certainly least discussed of all potential runestones in North America, yet its story is one of the most entertaining of all The documentary evidence for the runic inscription is slim in the extreme, in fact we only have a fourth-hand version of the putative text
- Fake runes? - The Rune Blog
The Kensington runestone Photo: Henrik Williams Most importantly, a corpus edition of runic objects in America is a prerequisite when countermanding the fake news of European presence in pre-Columbian America Runic inscriptions are used as would-be evidence that “whites” were there very early or in some areas even first
- The Decorah runestone in Iowa - The Rune Blog
I wrote about American runestones, and I promised there would be more After an extended hiatus, the Rune Blog awakes again One reason for the longish pause is the fact that I organized the third Rune Round in August, this time in and around Sweden’s first capital, Sigtuna As before, I cooperated with Loraine Jensen and Myrna Smith, board members of the American Association for Runic
- Runestone found in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
The Eigg Runestone Photo: Camille Dressler Late last year, a runic boulder was found by a resident on the island of Eigg, part of the Inner Hebrides Eigg has an ancient history, showing settlement by both Gaelic and Norse people It was a Viking habitation and a base for their trade with Ireland a thousand years ago
- Archive | The Rune Blog
A blog dedicated to all things runic New finds and scientific discoveries are presented, but also runic happenings such as lectures, seminars, excursions, and exhibitions
- “Bite me” runestones - The Rune Blog
Here, I would only like to pay attention to a detail of the ship prow’s animal head: its “rat-like” teeth This may not have any particular significance, but I notice that an even more impressive set of needle-like teeth is found on the Grällsta runestone (Vs 27) in the province of Västmanland
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