Kensington Runesmith
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Kensington Rune Stone location
of Kensington Minn. Vinland center map
my guesses:
These first three line are my guess at the content of the lost
top of this stone
0 This stone marks the
center of this land
0.1 it is
30 degrees to either sea
0.2 west
to our home you will find
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1 8
8:steppes:and:22:mountains:which:
2 .......
:obþagelsefarþ:
we:up dogging trip:from:
3.................
..redmanland:of:mist:we
4
:2:skjer'v:
live:twain:2:nude mountain ranges:
5
2:degrees:travel:north:from:stone:
6
we:whale:and:fish:and:then:on the trip:
7
we:meet:ten:tribes:red:
8 pAVM........
from:savage:to:sage:year995:........
9 .............
explorer:of:wild:.........
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The ancient
Germanic alphabet
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in the Runic inscriptions at: http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/FMProCGI/Runefindlinks.html
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Photo of orginal can be found at: http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/NCCH-docs/Runehtml/Runebilder/B112.gif
Normalized Yuþorkhniastbmly Transliteration
yuþorhniactbmly B-no: B112 N-no: Dating: Before 1332.
Photo of orginal can be found at: http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/NCCH-docs/Runehtml/Runebilder/B117B.gif
Normalized Ívarr á Transliteration
ifara B-no: B117 N-no: 709 Dating: Before 1248.
Photo of orginal can be found at: http://gonzo.hd.uib.no/NCCH-docs/Runehtml/Runebilder/B1-100/B003.jpg
Normalized Ave Maria Transliteration auema
B-no: B003 N-no: Dating:
If the rune cutters had wanted to say Ave Maria, they would have used the runes above. Thus we need to translate "AVM" as just a simple Latin abbreviation.
Turning to the inside front cover of any Latin dictionary we translate "AVM" like this.
"A" is a standard Latin abbreviation for the Latin word for year: annus, "V" and "M" are roman numerals for 5 and 1000. Thus
the Latin abbreviation "AVM" can be translated into modern English as :Year 995".
On the Kensington rune stone is the rune made of these three characters
O+" I am looking for any posible source for this rune. Do you have
any ideas. I think it may come from the east, but I have had no luck
finding it.
As far as I have been able to find, there is no such rune and never
has been, apart from the Kensington inscription. Hjalmar Holand (one
of the few supporters of the stone's authenticity) claims that it is based
on a 13th century manuscript version of 'o'-umlaut, which actually has
a small inverted 'v' over it (no 'x') - his claim is that the two ends
of the 'v' were separated by accident, making it look like two dots.
This all sounds like a serious stretch to me, but then again I don't really
buy anything
Holand has to say on the subject <g>.
From: Jennifer Smith <runesmith(at)orbitor.ica.net>
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Knut
Rage: Kensington-steinen- myten om det norrøne Amerika
note that the first line is missing on this picture as of Oct.
26, 1997... Pete
8 : goter : ok : 22 : norrmen : po : opdagelsefard : fro : vinland
: vest : vi : hade : lager : ved : 2 : skjar
: en : dags
: rise : norr : fro : deno : sten : vi : var : ok : fiske : en : dagh :
aptir : vi : kom : hem : fan :
10 : man
: rode : af : blod : og : ded : AVM : fraelse : af : illy :
from: k stone
link in Norwegian
Early thoughts on the Kensington Stela by Peter Sjolander July
1992
8Goths ( 75 miles of flat land is one Goth) and 22 Norsemen (27
miles of mountains is one Norseman) west of here on foot is a sea with
an excellent port with two ways to the sea. One days sail north of
this latitude. (Vancouver B. C.) We spent one decade on that coast.
Before we got back we had made friends with ten indian tribes with blood
(sex) and death (went on the war path with them). Please god.
Don't send us to hell for that.
...side of stone...
We are ten men of the sea building our ship after 14 years of travel
around North America year 1362
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one Goth" could be like the travel from Helsengborg to So"lvesborg
(flat).
one "Norseman" could be like the travel from Bergen to Voss (mountains)
So very close to my modern GPS center point
A grand and current marker
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