Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists (www.yahoo.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to archaeology@mander.xyz on 18 Jun 11:20
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Microw@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 11:31 collapse

Interesting. So it’s carved in Futhark runes, which had already fallen out of use when the Vikings came to Vinland/America.

Taken altogether, Primrose and colleagues now theorize that a Hudson’s Bay Company employee—or employees—are responsible for the runes at some point in the 1800s, when the lord’s prayer had been published in Futhark already in 1611.

DagwoodIII@piefed.social on 18 Jun 12:25 collapse

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Try this novel.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-wolf-in-the-whale-jordanna-max-brodsky/112981?ean=9780316417150&next=t

Vikings and Inuits [and their gods] clash.