Word: holand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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AMERICA: 1355-1364 (272 pp.)-Hjalmar R. Holand-Duell, Sloan & Pearce...
...office window on Broadway Avenue, Alexandria, Minn. The farmer found it, so the story goes, embraced by the roots of an aspen tree. Bewildered by its cryptic angular markings, he carted it to Kensington and showed it off. A young Norwegian-born University of Wisconsin graduate named Hjalmar Holand heard of the stone, came to look it over. Then & there began the one-man crusade of which America: 1355-1364 is the latest token...
Runes & Ruins. One of the unusual facts about Holand's crusade is that the ideas involved are by no means out-&-out moonshine. Some of them may be sound, at least in substance, and reputable U.S. scholars (e.g., the late archaeologist Philip Ainsworth Means) have said as much publicly. Holand is fighting a case for history, not mythology or revelation. His firm belief: 1) Norse explorers repeatedly visited America before Columbus; 2) the Kensington Stone proves that some of them got as far west as Minnesota...
...rune stone-so called because the inscription is in one of the ancient Scandinavian runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...