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    Far to the West of Vinland
    Far to the West of Vinland
    Far to the West of Vinland
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    Far to the West of Vinland

    By B. Lynn Brant

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    Did Norse explorers journey to Minnesota in 1362, and carve a 200 lb stone with a runic message found by a Swedish farmer in 1898? Or, was it an elaborate hoax? The controversy has been swirling for 115 years. The Kensington Rune Stone remains an enigma because, while it cannot be proven authentic without corroborating evidence, neither can it be proven a forgery.

    "Far to the West of Vinland," is a scenario that I believe to be consistent with the best evidence. In its fictionalized human context, it is a story of money, power and pride, and how they combined to produce the Kensington Rune Stone. For objective investigators, perhaps it can illuminate how some apparently anomalous pieces of the KRS puzzle, may have fallen into place. I leave its relative believability up to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherB. Lynn Brant
    Release dateMar 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301975181
    Far to the West of Vinland
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    B. Lynn Brant

    I'm an economist by training, but have long had two avocations - the training and companionship of dogs, and amateur archaeology, particularly the evidence (and hoaxes) of pre-Columbian exploration of North America.

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      Far to the West of Vinland - B. Lynn Brant

      Far to the West of Vinland

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      B. Lynn Brant

      Far to the West of Vinland

      Copyright © 2013 by B. Lynn Brant

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      Table of Contents

      Forward

      Far to the West of Vinland

      Early November, 1893

      May, 1894

      June, 1895

      May, 1896

      Early Spring, 1897

      May 10, 1898

      August 25, 1898

      August 28, 1898

      September 6, 1898

      September 7, 1898

      April, 1903

      June, 1906

      September, 1906

      Author Note

      Forward

      Did Norse explorers journey to Minnesota in 1362, and carve a 200 lb stone with a runic message found by a Swedish farmer in 1898? Or, was it an elaborate hoax? The controversy has been swirling for 115 years. The Kensington Rune Stone remains an enigma because, while it cannot be proven authentic without corroborating evidence, neither can it be proven a forgery.

      Adding to the mystery, is the message on the stone. One modern translation reads:

      Eight Gottlanders and 22 Norwegians on this acquisition journey from Vinland far to the west. We had a camp by two shelters one day's journey north from this stone. We were fishing one day. After we came home, found 10 men red from blood and dead. Ave Maria save from evil.

      There are 10 men by the inland sea to look after our ships fourteen days journey from this island. Year 1362

      One cannot help but wonder who would want to leave such a vague message, with no discernible geographic references, and no claim of land for any king or prince. And for whom were they leaving it? On the other hand, one wonders who would choose such a bizarre message for their forgery, and why? The Kensington Rune Stone has never made sense to me, either way. But clearly, either it is a medieval artifact from 1362, or it is a forgery.

      Much has been written about the imagined 1362 party. Everything from who they were and what their motives were, to what routes they took and which old maps they used. But I know of no published speculative scenario of an 1890s deception that fits the available facts. And the proponents of the rune stone's authenticity, have challenged its critics to produce a forgery scenario that makes more sense than the 1362 scenario.

      There is no harm in speculation about history, it is not an attack on history. In fact, fiction can be a means for testing the available facts, and weaving a mosaic of what must have been, in order to support our vision of what might have been.

      Far to the West of Vinland, is a scenario that I believe to be consistent with the best evidence. In its fictionalized human context, it is a story of money, power and pride, and how they combined to produce the Kensington Rune Stone. For objective investigators, perhaps it can illuminate how some apparently anomalous pieces of the KRS puzzle, may have fallen into place. I leave its relative believability up to you.

      B. Lynn Brant

      Delaware, Ohio

      March 1, 2013

      Far to the West of Vinland

      Standing on the busy platform at Alexandria, Alfons looks around and marvels that one can now take a train this far north and west of Minneapolis. Excellent, he thinks, a few years ago this wasn't possible, and in another couple years, the line will run to Fargo.

      It is early summer, 1895, and Alfons

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