Selected Bibliography

Here are some sources for more information on the Kensington Rune Stone. Some are easier to find than others, but most are probably available through your local public library or inter-library loan.

• Blegen, Theodore C.
  1968, The Kensington Rune Stone, New Light on an Old Riddle
  St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
• Castle, Henry A.
  1915, Minnesota - Its Story and Biography
  Chicago: Lewis
• Friedrich, Orval
  1984, Early Vikings and the Ice Age
  Elma, Iowa: Privately Printed
• Gilman, Rhonda
  1993, Vikings in Minnesota: A Controversial Legacy
  Roots, Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 1993/Reprinted 1995
  St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society
• Gordon, Cyrus H.
  1974, Riddles in History
  New York: Crown Publishers
• Hall, Robert
  1995, The Kensington Runestone, Authentic and Important
  Cornell University Press
• Holand, Hjalmar R.
  1932, The Kensington Stone
  Ephraim, Wis: Privately Printed
  1940, Westward From Vinland
  New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pierce
  1940, Norse Discoveries and Explorations in America
  New York: Dover Publications
• Morison, Samuel Eliot
  1971, The European Discovery of America
  New York: Oxford University Press
• Pohl, Frederick J.
  1961, Atlantic Crossings Before Columbus
  New York: W.W. Norton and Company
• Wahlgren, Erik
  1958, The Kensington Stone, a Mystery Solved
  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
  1986, The Vikings and America
  London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd.
• Williams, Stephen
  1991, Fantistic Archeology, The Wild Side of North American Prehistory
  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

If you find yourself in Central Minnesota, you can see the stone itself at the Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota. Alexandria is about 2 hours from the Twin Cities on Interstate 94 (just northwest of St. Cloud).

Runestone Museum
206 Broadway
Alexandria, MN 53608
(612)763-3160

On your way through St. Cloud, stop in and get the best pizza in Minnesota at Bellanti's Pizza and Deli downtown. It'll cost you less than 10 bucks. Well worth the stop.

Bellanti's Pizza and Deli
30 9th Ave North
St. Cloud, MN 56301
(612)252-8500

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