Iowa Rune Stone

18 Reader Comments

Matt Bartel Nov 5 2009
1:34 pm

Ok, you get credit. Now where is it?

Jack Pine Nov 5 2009
1:54 pm

Dear EyeSee —

First, the word is “sites,” not “sights” — wouldn’t want repeated misspellings to tarnish that moment when you receive all the “credit” for your discovery. Second, are you suggesting that 14th century Scandinavian explorers used _camels_ to reach this area? They’re not native to Europe or North America, fyi. Finally, you do know that the stone is a fake, right?

Am I going to need to send money to a Nigerian prince in order to learn this fascinating secret?

Ish. You can keep your petrified cameltoe, Iowa.

Hi — I produced the Holy Grail in America documentary for the History Channel. I would love to know where this is and what is the proof. Do you have skeletons? Contact me through the Committee Films website and I’ll find someone to apply some science to this.

Jack Pine Nov 5 2009
3:20 pm

EyeSee,

What Maria hasn’t mentioned is that she’s also producing another documentary for the History Channel concerning, as it happens, the Kensington Rune Stone; see here: http://bit.ly/fEJ2q and here: http://bit.ly/1QAXb4. Careful! Be sure to get your “guaranteed credit” in writing before disclosing the secret spot….

Matt Bartel Nov 5 2009
4:15 pm

I want pictures of the camel hoof.

Re: Petrified camel hoof.

What’s to say it wasn’t bison or something similar native to this continent?

Spoonbridge Nov 5 2009
4:26 pm

Great, just when I thought I had found a nice, obscure topic for my masters thesis in history discussing Scandinavian immigrant ethnic pride in the creation of the runestone as a tourist attraction, somebody has to come along and complicate my argument! Seriously, when did this become so popular? Well, at least I’ll have plenty of primary sources…

@Spoonbridge: It’s been “popular” since I was a wee-wee lad.

Another in a long line of historic mysteries solved in MNspeak posts.

PS – They’re buried near the Cardiff giant.

jacc uVerified Nov 5 2009
8:49 pm

Camel hoof has more than one part of me petrified right now.

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Interesting that the camel hoof petrified so quickly. Permineralization seems like a very long term process. However, the Institute for Creation Research does say that if you want to speed it up so it fits within the last few thousand years, in order to be Biblically correct, you can immerse it in a hot spring (to force silification) or bury it in volcanic ash for a while (http://www.icr.org/article/how-long-does-it-take-for-wood-petrify/). Making an assumption that there’s at least a small amount of validity to what the ICR is saying (though not the general idea that all petrified wood is only several thousand years old or made commercially), does the research include defining which Iowegian hot springs/volcanic activity the camel was trapped in after being involved in this Kensington affair?

Ron Pendergast Nov 6 2009
11:29 am

The important thing is proving or disproving my find, not if I’m qualified to win a spelling bee. also the petrified hoof was an improper choice of words, it seems to be a fossil of a three toed animal possibly of a camel. As far as the cracks about credit due,if my discovery turns out to be authentic why shouldnt I get the credit, this started from my finding a rock with a strange hole in it, with out any prior knowledge of the kensington stone, I believe that my theory deserves serious investigation. Ron Pendergast

Ron Pendergast of the Emmetsburg Pendergasts????

eyeseetime Nov 8 2009
5:11 pm

william Wirt Pendergast 1833 Huthinson Minn. Maurice prendergast 1245

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