Hi, my name is Steve Hilgren and I do Ancient Viking research in the
west central Minnesota area.
Now that the winter season is here I have had the time to read thru
a few of the posts on this site. There have been many new
developements this summer 2006. I hope other members again will have
the time too to respond and then help too in better understanding
these lastest developements.
The summer of 2006 began with the annual Kensington Runestone
convention in Kensington Minnesota where Scott Wolters was the
speaker.He began with,,, I have just determinded that a templar knight
helped carve the runestone...Well,,that got everyones attention and a
few chuckles were heard. It was about that time the DaVinci code just
opened at the movies too.
So I hope by know you know what that movie was about and maybe have
had the time to read Scotts book. I highly recommend it.
I do not use the ,,H,,word any more and it is time to move beyond
that,,, but Scott now has proven the patina on the runes took hunderds
of years to grow,, and so this stone was carved hundreds of years ago
and so long before Olaf could have carved it,,disproving then those
that had claimed he carved it.
The claim too,,, was that there were 6 to 8 runes that did not
exsist in 1362. Scott then found these runes in a recient trip to
norway and sweden. They were older than 1362 and so he now has
disproved the last of these claims as to whether the KRS is the real deal.
Scott also then refered to the many mooring stones as a trail of
bread crumbs left by these explores and that we need to connect the
dots. Marion Dahm diagreed. Scott,Marion and I then had the chance to
sit and talk for an hour. Marion told me that a former milk truck
driver had sean a large bolder in east ottertail county.
After a month of going farm to farm,,,on the 4th of July I found
that stone. It is a viking mooring stone with the triangluar hole.
Marion and Leland Peterson came out 2 days later to take a few photos
and document its location too. The stone was dug up years ago and
placed out at the end of his driveway next to the mailbox, where the
milktruck driver and noticed it as he backed out. This was my first
mooring stone and it is 4 or 5 miles upstream from a small swampy lake
where I am looking for a viking ship.
If there is any responce I will start to share the connecting of
those dots. The hidden message on the stone and the map,,,the shallow
inland ocean where I have found a high water mark. The Vikings were here.
Merry Christmas and happy hunting this coming new year.
steve