It's about a new discovery, archeology, runic, lost civilizations, learning a lost writing form, Christians, crusade, pagans, miracles, a knight, Vikings, and Native Americans.
This is a new archeological discovery for our age and for the Scandinavian world it is as significant as the discovery of the walls of Troy or King Tut's tomb.
History tells us that Futhark Runic was last used in the 17th Century by a Swedish Admiral to convey his battle plans because even by then it was so little known he could use it as a secret code.
If you read my report you will be able to read and write Futhark Runic as well as he and his officers did. Something that has not been done since then, over four hundred years ago.
The inscription on the Kensington Runestone is in a ship's log format and contains 64 entries of daily activity leading up to the carving of the stone.
It is a bloody tale of Christianity served out on the edge of a sword.
What is more fascinating is that it is also a tale of a pagan bearing witness to miracles received by the Christian leader.
Introduction: This is a description of the viewpoint taken in researching and reporting this archaeological discovery.
Part One: The Viking Mindset. This is a description of the recorded viewpoints and humanly predicitable viewpoints held by the inhabitants of Iceland, Greenland, Markland and Vineland in the Mid fourteenth Century. A statement of their collective personality based upon their recorded life experiences.
Part Two: The Norwegian Christian Mindset. This is a description of the instructions given to Sir Paul Knutson by the Viking Christian King Magnus.
It instructs him to be zealous in is travels to the New World and to take 'fighting men' not clerics to the New World. These are the basic ingredients of a medieval religious crusade.
Part Three: FUTHARK. This is a description of Futhark, the ancient Viking alphabet, with a discussion of the expressive conventions used in Futhark and a Dictionary of Futhark Ideogram definitions derived from recorded meanings expressed by the runic scholars.
Part Four: The Kensington Runestone Message. The inscription interpreted, using the dictionary I decipher the runes into the story they have to tell.
The Conclusion: If you read this story then I pose this question to you. is it simply a Viking trader complaining about his zealous Christian employer or a tale of one man's conversion through the miracles he witnesses. I say this because of the last log entry he makes.
Addendum: My book explains what was recorded. In the addendum I take the liberty of saying what I think happened to produce this story.