ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The Kensington Runestone is once again in the limelight. This time, as part of a documentary set to air on The History Channel this fall. Andy and Maria Awes with Committee Films, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. - The Kensington Runestone is once again in the limelight. This time, as part of a documentary set to air on The History Channel this fall. Andy and Maria Awes with Committee Films, ...

For more than a century, the Kensington Runestone has perplexed historians as to its authenticity – in 1898, Olof Ohman and his sons discovered the stone while clearing land for a field. On the stone ...

The year was 1898. It was fall, and it was time to clear land for the spring planting. On a small 40-acre farm in central Minnesota, Olof Ohman and his two sons, Olof Jr., age 11, and Edward, age 10, ...

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- The mystery of the Kensington Runestone is about to get a whole lot bigger. Images of the controversial stone, which is either one of the most important historical artifacts in ...

Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the Vikings were here ...

For more than a century, many authorities have generally argued against the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone. A Swedish immigrant farmer Olof Ohman discovered the famed runestone in 1898 in a ...

ALEXANDRIA (AP) - Many Scandinavian-Americans hold it as an article of faith, or at least reason enough to ignore Columbus Day: A rock plucked from roots of a tree in Minnesota in 1898 proves the ...

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Andres Andrews of the National Museum staff shows the Kenington Runestone to Lislotte Paulson in 1948. (Star Tribune file/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

A talk on the Kensington Runestone will be at 9 a.m. Jan. 14 at the Olmsted County History Center. Mike Podulke will talk about the stone, which was found near Alexandria, Minn., and supposedly tells ...