The woodchipper guy from ‘Fargo’ chases a 600-year Viking mystery.
Actor Peter Stormare and historian Elroy Balgaard set out to discover whether Vikings had reached North America centuries before Christopher Columbus, basing their research around an artefact known as the Kensington Runestone. Was a rune-covered rock found in America in 1898 left there by the Vikings, or was it all a big hoax?
Glorious dreams and accusations of lies have swirled about the Kensington Runestone for more than a hundred years. In 1898, Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant in America, reported that he had found a grey slab of rock carved with runes in a field in Minnesota. It soon became known by the name of the nearby settlement of Kensington. And that’s about the only thing that’s clear about this rock. Was it, as the inscription on the rock suggests, left there by Vikings in 1362? Or was Öhman a liar?
This is the mystery that sees actor Peter Stormare (Fargo) and history enthusiast Elroy Balgaard set out to delve into the discovery in the series American Runestone: A Viking Mystery, watch now: https://amzn.to/3MfTZMk
