Written for an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Timothy Mills, who believes that the word "opdagelse" is the fatal flaw.

Scott Wolter is convinced that the controversial runestone could not have been carved in 1898. Article by Peg Meier. [Star Tribune]

Keith and Kevin Massey consider the inscription "AVM".

Concordia professor J.A. Holvik devoted his scholarly career to debunking the Kensington Runestone. His arguments are those still used today by critics.

Finding aid for a special collection at the University of North Dakota's Chester Fritz Library. Short description of the subject of the collection, inventory of the original donation and an addition.

Subtitled "Why Kensington Runestone Is Authentic." Yuri Kuchinsky's contributions to some rather heated arguments on Usenet.

Peter Sjolander offers a working translation and an earlier attempt, both of which are very different from the usual translations. Includes rune graphics.

Features photos, transcription and translation, Kensington Runestone FAQ, answers to common objections, bibliography. By Bill Hoyt.

Dr. Richard Nielsen says that all of the runes and words on the Kensington stone can be found in fourteenth-century documents. [Echo Press]

Report on Robert A. Hall's book "The Kensington Rune-Stone: Authentic and Important: A Critical Edition." [Cornell News Service]

Richard Nielsen rebuts an earlier essay in the journal Scandinavian Studies which had dismissed the Kensington Rune Stone as a forgery, based on the runic symbols used. 74 pages, 438K, in PDF.

Interview of geologist Scott Wolter, who will be taking the Kensington Runestone to a scientific conference in Sweden. 4.5 minutes, RealAudio. [Minnesota Public Radio]

Shows where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington and Alexandria.

Interactive map shows land features, and where Runestone Hill is in relation to Kensington. Requires JavaScript and a 4.0 or later browser.

The Smithsonian Institution, which had endorsed the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone, has done a complete about-face. [Associated Press]

Report on scholarly findings presented at the Midwest Archaeology Conference held in November 2000. [Associated Press]

William Bakken finds Blegen's arguments convincing, i.e., that "expert runologists" have pronounced the inscription a fraud and that people capable of this level of forgery were present in the Kensington area in the 1890s. Bibliography is longer than the article.

Full text of the preliminary report to the Minnesota Historical Society by its Museum Committee, presented May 9, 1910. In HTML or page images, your choice. [Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society]

Avocational archaeologist and epigrapher J. Huston McCulloch attacks the theory that the engraver of the Kensington stone clumsily invented a rune to represent the late Latin letter j.

Ongoing investigation of the artifact, including a growing library of original documents. By KRS buff Michael Zalar.

RealAudio and transcript of MPR feature story. [Minnesota Public Radio]

Matt Armstrong reviews Ole Godfred Landsverk's book "The Discovery of the Kensington Runestone: A Reappraisal of the Circumstances under which the Stone was Discovered."

A special exhibit at the Historiska museet, Stockholm. Photos, an introduction to the controversial stone. Also, special issue of Historiska Nyheter (in PDF). In English and Swedish.

William P. Holmen briefly outlines the history of the controversial stone, and mentions the theory that the Norse explorers may have intermarried with the Mandan Indians.

Written as an assignment in a college anthropology course. By Vincent J. Meckstroth. Tries to be objective, but says that proponents of the stone's authenticity merely seem to be educated and scholarly, whereas dismissing the stone immediately as a hoax is "good archeology."

A translation of the Kensington Rune Stone by Peter Sjolander. Contends that the stone marks the exact center of the northern hemisphere and longitudinal center of North America, and that therefore Redminland was all of North America.