THE KENSINGTON RUNESTONE: Commentary and Speculation by Bob Voyles

          Hjalmar R. Holand convinced himself and many of his followers that the many authentic medieval Scandinavian stoneholes to be found in this region of Minnesota were left-overs from the Paul Knutsen search party looking for "Lost Greenlanders."  He extended his mistake to include some iron weapons and other iron objects he attributed to being left behind by this unsubstantiated search party. Here in this WWII-era book, Holand shows and describes many of the stoneholes and iron objects found over the years in Minnesota.  Unfortunately, he ascribed stoneholes as being for mooring boats, which is an untenable conclusion, based on the topography of the landscape.  The watery landscape is currently about what it was like several hundred years ago, so obviously, the many stoneholes in Minnesota were made for other reasons--which I won't go into here.  Suffice to say that Holand was wrong about what the purpose was for this old tool seen above.  Certainly, it was not use