Re: KRS and the 1890's


Peo wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that there
> are more than one article in any of these newpapers
> http://www.augustana.edu/swenson/Newspapers/NewspaperGuideQry_1.html
> that could have supplied the appropriate futhark-font, and inspired someone
> to create a fake rune stone....
>
> Peo

Yes, in fact Ohman had a series of articles cipped from a newspaper
which was a history of Sweden, and which contained a futhark. But it
was not the runes that were used on the KRS. If a person had wanted to
make a forgery, there was certainly enough information availible to
about anyone make a credible runestone, using the proper runes. But
this was not done.
To me it simply does not make sense for a forger, who must have spent a
considerable amount of time working on the stone, to not have used the
easily availible information to make a stone that was not so obviously
'wrong' to so many of the early critics. A subjective observation
admittadly, but one that weighs heavy on my mind.

The arguments which are more objective from the standpoint of many of
these 'wrong' runes to have been shown correct for the 14th century
have been mentioned elsewhere, so I will not repeat them here

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Kensington Runestone - Nielsen and Wolters.
    ... >>>message is identical to the message plainly inscribed on the stone, ... >>>presumably available to anyone who could read the runes. ... it is amazing that someone could allege that the dots on the KRS ... >No. I'm arguing from the fact that the KRS was inspected by Holand ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Kensington Runestone - Nielsen and Wolters.
    ... >>> the Easter Table). ... >>message is identical to the message plainly inscribed on the stone, ... >>presumably available to anyone who could read the runes. ... it is amazing that someone could allege that the dots on the KRS ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Spirit Pond, Maine
    ... >> runes which were curved and rounded. ... It is also a memorial stone, ... >> Indeed I find the dissimilarities between the KRS and runestones can ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: U of South Carolina Releases Topper Radiocarbon Dates
    ... > None of that matters as it isn't proof of any rune stone at all. ... That's the difference compared with the naysayer - we know ... Williams once has argued that the runes looks more like ... > forger then it is a genuine article of the date indicated. ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: U of South Carolina Releases Topper Radiocarbon Dates
    ... > None of that matters as it isn't proof of any rune stone at all. ... That's the difference compared with the naysayer - we know ... Williams once has argued that the runes looks more like ... > forger then it is a genuine article of the date indicated. ...
    (sci.anthropology)