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Got two big things that we've been pushing, our pavilion at Cigar Hang, which we've cleared the ground for, we've whiled out the dirt for, and we are fixing to put a foundation in for.

That one, we are about 32.3% of the way to our total.

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Chris, all in you.

Yes, I've considered it.

Would you like to know something more than that? Tell me a little bit about the Rune Stone, Jimmy.

Yeah.

So the Kensington Rune Stone is a stone that has runes on it.

Big surprise.

I hope I didn't spoil that for anybody.

Perhaps the greatest evidence against the authenticity of the Kensington Runestone is that people from Norway couldn't handle Minnesota.

I'm Aidan Mattis and welcome back to The Lore Line.

Olaf Omen was looking at something that absolutely should not have been where it was.

A description which could, potentially, result from a journey up the St. Lawrence, into Lake Ontario, and then up to Niagara Falls.

And if the Norse had made it that far in the early years of the 11th century, then who was to say they couldn't have made it all the way to Minnesota by the latter half of the 14th? The first man to answer no to that question appears to have been Professor Olaus Breda of the University of Minnesota.

who almost immediately rejected the inscription on what came to be known as the Kensington Runestone as a hoax.

He found the writing to be, as Bad Archaeology puts it, an illiterate mixture of Norwegian, Swedish, and English, an opinion shared by multiple other scholars of the day once the text was shared with them.

Looking at it myself, I can't really say that I disagree.

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