The Kensington Stone Mystery
TEXT
8 : goter : ok : 22 : norrmen : po : opdagelsefard : fro : vinland : vest : vi : hade :
lager : ved : 2 : skjar : en : dags : rise : norr : fro : deno : sten : vi : var : ok : fiske :
en : dagh : aptir : vi : kom : hem : fan : 10 : man : rode : af : blod : og : ded : AVM :
fraelse : af : illy : har 10 : mans : ve : havet : at : se : aptir : vore : skip : 14 : dagh :
rise : from : deno : oh : ahr : 1362 :
TRANSLATION
8 Swedes and 22 Norwegians on a discovery voyage from Vinland westward, we
had anchored by 2 rocky islets one days voyage north from this stone. We had
fished a day, after we came home [we] found 10 men red with blood and dead.
AV(E) M(ARIA) deliver from evil. We have 10 men at sea to look after our ship 14
days voyage from this island. Year 1362
8 : goter : ok : 22 : norrmen : po : opdagelsefard : fro : vinland : vest : vi : hade :
lager : ved : 2 : skjar : en : dags : rise : norr : fro : deno : sten : vi : var : ok : fiske :
en : dagh : aptir : vi : kom : hem : fan : 10 : man : rode : af : blod : og : ded : AVM :
fraelse : af : illy : har 10 : mans : ve : havet : at : se : aptir : vore : skip : 14 : dagh :
rise : from : deno : oh : ahr : 1362 :
TRANSLATION
8 Swedes and 22 Norwegians on a discovery voyage from Vinland westward, we
had anchored by 2 rocky islets one days voyage north from this stone. We had
fished a day, after we came home [we] found 10 men red with blood and dead.
AV(E) M(ARIA) deliver from evil. We have 10 men at sea to look after our ship 14
days voyage from this island. Year 1362
The Stone is ostensibly a record of a 14th century expedition by Scandanvian explorers into the North American
heartland. The notion must certainly be entertained that the Stone is a hoax, and most of the scholarly comment on the
Stone has come to that conclusion. The Stone has been declared a hoax and forgery on the basis of the style and type
of its runic letters and on the basis of the language presented. Others have argued persuasively that these objections are
both ill placed and inappropriate, and that the Stone should be given the benefit of the doubt. We believe that to be
accepted as genuine, an artifact of this type, ostensibly being of such outrageous provenance, needs more than a
benefit of the doubt. It needs a mark of clear evidence, a signature of antiquity beyond the abilities of a modern forger.
Given this, the Stone would then have to be accepted as genuine, the linguistic and orthgraphic arguments becoming
irrelevant.
Three letters on the Stone, AVM, provide the sufficient mark of antiquity to declare the Kensington Stone genuine. Dr.
Keith Massey and his twin brother Rev. Kevin Massey have noted that the convention of medieval abbreviation
presented in these letters is beyond the reasonable ability of even the most expert forger. The details around this Latin
abbreviation will convince even the most hardened skeptic that the Kensington Stone is the real article.
Click here to read a detailed description of why the Kensington Stone is genuine.
Click here to download a copy of our full article on the authenticity of the Kensington Stone.
heartland. The notion must certainly be entertained that the Stone is a hoax, and most of the scholarly comment on the
Stone has come to that conclusion. The Stone has been declared a hoax and forgery on the basis of the style and type
of its runic letters and on the basis of the language presented. Others have argued persuasively that these objections are
both ill placed and inappropriate, and that the Stone should be given the benefit of the doubt. We believe that to be
accepted as genuine, an artifact of this type, ostensibly being of such outrageous provenance, needs more than a
benefit of the doubt. It needs a mark of clear evidence, a signature of antiquity beyond the abilities of a modern forger.
Given this, the Stone would then have to be accepted as genuine, the linguistic and orthgraphic arguments becoming
irrelevant.
Three letters on the Stone, AVM, provide the sufficient mark of antiquity to declare the Kensington Stone genuine. Dr.
Keith Massey and his twin brother Rev. Kevin Massey have noted that the convention of medieval abbreviation
presented in these letters is beyond the reasonable ability of even the most expert forger. The details around this Latin
abbreviation will convince even the most hardened skeptic that the Kensington Stone is the real article.
Click here to read a detailed description of why the Kensington Stone is genuine.
Click here to download a copy of our full article on the authenticity of the Kensington Stone.
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The Kensington Stone, displayed to the right, was
discovered near Kensington Minnesota USA in 1898.
In the nearly one hundred years since its discovery,
the Stone has been the source of on-going debate as to
its authenticity. The reason is clear, the Kensington
Stone presents a Runic text which describes a Norse
journey into North America in the 14th Century.
Following is a transcription and translation of the text
of the Kensington Stone.
discovered near Kensington Minnesota USA in 1898.
In the nearly one hundred years since its discovery,
the Stone has been the source of on-going debate as to
its authenticity. The reason is clear, the Kensington
Stone presents a Runic text which describes a Norse
journey into North America in the 14th Century.
Following is a transcription and translation of the text
of the Kensington Stone.