They decline to note that the date on the stone-1362-is after the Viking age (traditionally said to have ended in 1066), so while it would be Norse if genuine, it is not Viking.Īt the Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minn., the two men examine the rune stone and have special permission from the museum to inspect it close-up, outside of its display case. ![]() ![]() Nelson calls it “one of the most fascinating” artifacts in America, and they note that “some” believe the artifact to be authentic and others feel it is a hoax. The episode opens with Blue Nelson and Mike Arbuthnot traveling to Minnesota to examine the Kensington Runestone. Overall, the show provided a balanced, if not always critical, evaluation of the Kensington Runestone, but it also made rather plain that the truth behind the story-like that of the “Viking” spearpoint in New York last week-is much less important that the fact that these stories can be used as window dressing to draw in American audiences to a show that would otherwise be a bargain-basement effort to cosplay as Vikings. If you came to the show expecting to see a discussion of recent conspiracy theories tying the stone to the Knights Templar, the Holy Bloodline of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, or cultic land claims to the Mississippi watershed, you were also deeply disappointed. If you tuned in to America’s Lost Vikings S01E04 “Ghosts of the Great Lakes” hoping to see a serious investigation of the controversial Kensington Runestone, a nineteenth century hoax claiming to be a memorial left by Norse and Swedish visitors to Minnesota in the fourteenth century, you were seriously disappointed.
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