Just a note of interest to the group: I was in Washington DC this week and saw the Viking exhibit at the Smithsonian. It was quite nice and, by the way, they...
"Just a note of interest to the group: I was in Washington DC this week and saw the Viking exhibit at the Smithsonian. It was quite nice and, by the way, they...
Question to the group: the AVM, signifying ave maria, on the KRS. Seems like an obvious thing to check but I havent seen it talked about much. Has this been ...
Research surrounding the Van Buren Grave is described by Gloria Farley in her book "In Plain Site". Interestingly, its in a cemetary. The town decided to put...
The grave can be Norse.<br>Slabs were used making graves in Norway during the medieval period.<br>The graves found around the ruins of the<br>medieval Tanberg ...
The column in the Pioneer Press came out on Tues July 4. I got a good response on my website, and Laura did a fair job on the coulmn itself. And Here it ...
Zalar was not always berserk about Viking explorers. But two years ago, he picked up a book about the runestone at a rummage sale and was so captured by the ...
Michael,<br>Have you been in touch with Mr Firesteel yet ?<br>Your letter from three weeks back should have<br>been answered by now.<br><br>I was in Sweden...
Geir,<br><br>Were the Canadian Nakota singers by any chance from Morley, Alberta? These are also know as they Stoney Tribe, and I have already been talking...
Just returned home to Alberta from a recent trip to Winnipeg, Manitoba. This trip was to attend a family event, but this time I took some time along the way to...
Not sure where in Canada the Nakotas visiting Sweden came from Roger. In late August they will<br>be touring Norway. Maybe I can find out then.<br><br>Did you ...
No, I did not have time to properly do this, when I was there. We ended up being short of time, but I will be going back in about 3 weeks. In this forth ...
Hi all, <br><br>As soon as I made the following bold claim I suddenly now find it in question. I said:<br><br>"The site is in Manitoba and its placement is ...
Last Friday, I journeyed up to Fergus Falls, MN on the Ottertail River - this is the main flow of what becomes the Red River at Breckenridge, MN and was still...
The Wed, July 19 edition of the Alexandria Echo contained a front page story on my finding the errors in the Smithsonian book. The article can hopefully be ...
I have heard that years ago in the Oklahoma mountains south of Heavener, on the Kiamichi River, a farmer was cleaning out a water hole in the river and found...
Ratdogs,<br><br> I feel pretty confident that this story is baseless. If there was anything at all to it Gloria Farley would have given it big play in her...
Hi Bob,<br><br>This is the first I have heard of a Viking ship find in OK.<br><br>I would like to talk about Viking evidence in Ok. When I visited with Gloria...
I realize that this forum is supposed to be to discuss runestones, and I apologize for getting off topic, but I have looked in several other forums trying to...
No need to apologize Ratdogs, as I feel sure that anything concerning the finding of a viking vessel in North America would be of interest to the entire club. ...
No. And when I tried to find AVM, in as old a dictionary as I could find(1640) of abbreviations, it was not there.<br><br>But here is my translation of the ...
While technically the category it runestones, it is quite open to anything that can relate to them in a broad sense, including collateral finds, history, ...
I have gone through some of the old inscriptions on runestones, and while I have not found specifically an AVM, I have found that ave maria was often ...