THE KENSINGTON RUNESTONE: Commentary and Speculation by Bob Voyles

                                               Sometimes reading a new book will bring about nice surprises.  Not many days ago, a member of this KRS Supporters Club recommended to the Group this book, seen below, by T. Reiersgord, and I decided to purchase it and read it, even though I had already determined that some of the author's opinions were badly askew, such as his take on what caused the "red with blood" scenerio at the Lake With Two Skerries. But to start off, I should mention a "background article" I wrote on this subject about five years ago for the Norwegian American newspaper.  In the article, I went into a lot of what I thought were meaningful details about this petroglyph seen here.  The carving is located on the southern shore of Lake Superior, at Copper Harbor, Michigan.  Both this photo and a photo of a nearby carved bear were taken for me several years ago by a friend (a boat captain) local to the Copper Harbor area. Please concentrate for a

                                                      Here's an article I wrote for Alexandria's Echo Press November of  last year, 2020.  (Cut & paste): https://www.echopress.com/opinion/letters/6745882-Commentary-Was-Runestone-Hill-a-defensive-camp-site Please note that the actual Kensington Runestone discovery site is up at the top of the knoll. (Photo by Bob Voyles.) UPDATE (9/10/2021): "High level USGS DEM LiDAR" shows an elevated ridgeway coming in across "Skrael Hill" from the west (direction of the Chippewa River), which one would expect on the way to a "peninsula-island."  This helps to confirm the message on the KRS about the location of the runestone discovery site being on an island or peninsula-island.  As a sidenote, Skrael Hill has at least three medieval Scandinavian stonehole rocks spread across its top, within view of Runestone Hill.