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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.
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 ...
In the vicinity, Schnell found a destroyed stone without runes which probably was the leaning stone described by Gadd. [23] Since they would hinder agriculture, the three stones were re-erected at a distance of 60 metres, at the side of the road. [23] The stone circle and the other monuments described by Gadd could not be found anymore. [23 ...
The larger Jelling stone is often referred to as “Denmark’s birth certificate,” as it’s the first monument to name the land as its people pivoted to Christianity, according to the National ...
[58] [59] At the site, Sutherland's team found whet-stones used to sharpen blades. They analyzed the metal fragments still in the whet-stone and found bronze, an alloy used by the Norse but unknown to the native peoples. They also found stones cut in a European fashion, Old World rat fur, and whalebone shovels similar to those used on Greenland ...