Word: holand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crusader Holand, now 74, has been building up his fascinating, flabbergasting case for 40 years. It has been scouted and scoffed at, but no one yet has been able to knock the props from under...
...explorers who reached what is now Minnesota, Holand believes, were members of a long-range patrol dispatched from a semi-permanent settlement somewhere to the east. This settlement, he concludes, was on the present site of Newport, R.I. Its citadel was none other than the eight-columned, cylindrical ruin commonly known as the Old Stone Mill, still standing in Newport's Touro Park...
There was no one in sight. Holand's theory is that Knutson detached members of his party to investigate. This was the band, according to Holand, that reached Minnesota-after a boat trip calculated to make even a Viking tremble. Assumes Holand: the searchers would first search the Atlantic seaboard north of Vinland, then keep on going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party...
...Priceless Heirloom." Knutson's headquarters detachment, meanwhile, had been busy with that "priceless heirloom: the only building in America that brings us in contact with the Middle Ages." Holand reviews the several theories on the origin of the Newport landmark, including the widely accepted one that it was erected as a windmill by a Rhode Island colonial governor. Following Philip Ainsworth Means and others, and citing copious structural details, Holand concludes that the windmill theory is unsound-that the building was originally a "round, fortified stone church" of a type common in medieval Scandinavia. The builders: obviously, Knutson...
...Crusader Holand's case is largely a concatenation of guesses intended to account for the Minnesota relics. As for the relics themselves, it is possible that they are as bogus as the Cardiff Giant, for whether or not there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that...