The Heavener Runestone
About 3 min readA sandstone slab in eastern Oklahoma bears eight carved runes — and a claim that Vikings reached the state centuries before Columbus. The runes themselves tell a different story.
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The Kensington Runestone: Vikings in Minnesota, or a 19th-Century Hoax?
About 4 min readIn 1898 a Swedish farmer in Minnesota dug a carved stone out of the roots of a tree. It claimed that Norse explorers reached the American Midwest in 1362 — 130 years before Columbus. Scholars have been arguing about it ever since.