The Kensington Rune Stone
Library of Congress The Kensington rune stone / THE KENSINGTON RUNE STONE. EDGE VIEW. FACE VIEW. Photographed for the Minnesota Historical Society by Adolph Donaldson, St. Paul, Minn. MAP OF THE VICINITY OF KENSINGTON AND PELICAN LAKE, AND OF THE FARM WHERE THE RUNE STONE WAS FOUND. THE KENSINGTON RUNE STONE. Preliminary Report to the Minnesota Historical Society by its Museum Committee .* * Presented at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 9, 1910; published in advance of this volume, December, 1910. As the Museum Committee is charged with the responsibility of making a recommendation to the Society respecting the authenticity or the fraudulent origin of the Kensington Rune Stone and its inscription, it is thought best to review somewhat carefully the facts as to the discovery of the stone. For this purpose the results of the three visits made to that locality by Prof. N. H. Winchell, investigating the subject for this Committee, will here be cast into one statement. The Discovery . The stone was found on the farm of Mr. Olof Ohman on the southeast quarter of section 14, Solem township, Douglas county, about three miles northeast from Kensington station on the “Soo Line,” on November 8, 1898. The owner of the farm was having a patch of land cleared of timber preparatory to plowing, and his men were grubbing out the stumps. There were present at the finding, or immediately thereafter, the following persons: Olof Ohman, his sons, Olof Emil Ohman, 12 years of age, and Edward Ohman, 10 years of age, and Nils Olof Flaaten, owner of the adjoining farm.
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