Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
…suggested this was actually the Hindu syllable “aum,” which was popular in Western esoteric circles when the stone was discovered.) In 1957 Bishop Peter W. Bartholome commemorated a shrine to “Our Lady of the Runestone” in Alexandria, Minnesota. Just as the Rune Stone Vikings were continually re-imagined, so too were the Native Americans who killed them. Krueger demonstrates how, “The skraeling endured as a convenient symbol for the threats posed…
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