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Enthusiastic believers in Viking lore have no trouble accepting the Kensington stone. Allegedly found near Kensington, Minn, by Farmer Olof Ohman in 1898, the stone, inscribed in runic characters, tells of a band of Norsemen who wandered to Minnesota in 1362 and presumably died there of Indian-trouble.* Last week Professor (of Germanic languages) Erik Wahlgren of U.C.L.A. pooh-poohed the petrophiles. He had positive proof, he said, that the stone was faked by the late Farmer Ohman...
Chief champion of the Kensington stone is Hjalmar Holand, 81, of Ephraim, Wis., who has made a career out of writing and lecturing about it. His principal argument: Farmer Ohman was too unlettered (six weeks of schooling) to fake the runic inscription, and he had no books to help him. Skeptical scholars have pointed to many oddities in the stone's language, but this pale, negative tactic has not laid the ghosts of the Minnesota Vikings. Both popular and learned belief in it is still strong. Professor Wahlgren felt that positive action was needed...
When Farmer Olof Ohman stumbled across this laconic (but, to him, illegible) account of adventure and death, near Kensington, Minn, in 1898, he had no idea of the importance of his find. The story was carved on a 200-lb. stone he dug out of a small hill that had once been an island in an ancient lake. The inscription was written in more than 200 runes, the ancient alphabet of the Norse. Ever since the carving was first translated, the Kensington Stone has been one of the most fascinating exhibits in the history of the daring Norse seamen...
Forgery in Stone? Doubters soon spoke up to spoil the fun. Experts on old Norse writing claimed that the language was like no known Scandinavian dialect. Authorities decided that the stone was a forgery. It was probably carved, they thought, by a friend of Farmer Ohman, an unfrocked Swedish minister who was known to have had a Swedish grammar with a section on runes. During the past 50 years few real experts have even bothered to study the discredited stone...
...predicting Harvard win, for Harvard aint such a Baum Little team. No Mather how much the press talks Army can't Skaer Crimson. Harvard goal-line is a Hartline to cross, but when the local backs have wiggled their Hipps across the goal and Preston to another win, Ohman what fun in the Howell Lockerhauser (Dillon Field House, stupid!). Harvard 13, Army...