THE KENSINGTON RUNESTONE: Commentary and Speculation by Bob Voyles

This blog post is about a puzzling occurrence involving stoneholes chiseled into rocks, I believe in both the pioneering days of the late 1800s and in medieval times, perhaps as early as the 12th century.  This multiple stonehole-making happened near the border of Minnesota and South Dakota, near the town of Appleton, in Minnesota.  It is my firm belief that the stoneholes were chiseled out to mark a spot of earth along a ridgeline directly south of the Pomme de Terre River, a river that empties into the Minnesota River, not far from where the Minnesota river begins near the bottom of Big Stone Lake.  Significantly, the Pomme de Terre River reaches the farthest north of any river discharging into the Minnesota River.  This is important because I think the Norse Code-stone may possibly have been created to indicate an attempted medieval Scandinavian land-claim, and placing the seemingly encoded stonehole rocks by the Pomme de Terre River might have been intended to maximize a