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I often say that my job mainly involves reading and deciphering runes and that this can both be easy and extremely difficult. Sometimes I can see at once what it says and can translate the inscription on the spot; in other cases I have been forced to admit – even after spending a long time…

I never thought that I would ever devote any time to the Kensington stone from America, but sometimes fate takes a different turn. Many have dedicated their lives to proving that it is a genuine runic inscription carved by Scandinavians in 1362 in what would become one of the Swedish districts of Minnesota in the…

The Kensington Runestone, which was found in the Swedish settlements of Minnesota in 1898 by the immigrant Olof Ohman, is perhaps the world’s most famous and controversial runestone. A majority of scholars dismissed it early on as a fake, but it has remained an unsolved mystery. In 2019, a middle school teacher and her fourth…