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A Swedish immigrant, [3] Olof Ohman, said that he found the stone late in 1898 while clearing land which he had recently acquired of trees and stumps before plowing. [4] The stone was said to be near the crest of a small knoll rising above the wetlands, lying face down and tangled in the root system of a stunted poplar tree estimated to be from less than 10 to about 40 years old. [5]
The vast majority of runestones date to the Viking Age. There is only a handful Elder Futhark (pre-Viking-Age) runestones (about eight, counting the transitional specimens created just around the beginning of the Viking Age). Årstad Stone (390–590 AD) Einang stone (4th century) Tune Runestone (250–400 AD) Kylver Stone (5th century)
No Old Norse approach to translation fits this stone. The stone's most likely translation is 'Gnome Dale' (Valley of the Gnomes). Scandinavian presence in the nearby town of Heavener is early and the likeliest source of the carving of the stone. Other purported rune stones in the region are modern creations, or misinterpreted Native American ...
Satellite images may have led scientists to the second known Viking settlement in North America.
In addition, there was a large square stone surrounded with rows of smaller stones, which Gadd described as a "fairly large cemetery". [23] Not far from the stones, there were also two giant passage graves, about 20 paces long. [23] There is a depiction of the cross-less stone from the 17th century, made by Johan Hadorph and Johan Peringskiöld ...
The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...
One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to the afterlife, they added.
They found that as early as 1939, the runestone was located upland and may have been buried. [3] The inscriptions on the stone were visible only for a short period of time between the shifting tides, due to dramatic erosion of the shoreline at Pojac Point and the fact that the stone was positioned only 20 feet (6.1 m) from the extreme low tide ...