Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-17
A RARE TREAT | X
FOR WII,LMAR
Hialmar r. Holland win Deliver
Lecture Apr. Is, Of Absorb
ina Interest.

ing Interest.
On Friday evening, April 26, at the
opera house, Mr.. Hjalmar Rued Ho-
land will give an illustrated talk on
t he celebrated Kensington Rune
Stone, the Ulen Sword, and their
bearing, historically and archealo-
gically, on the early history of Am
erica, and that of Minnesota in par
ticular.
Mr.. Hollands lecture, illustrated by
many fine views, will include his re-
cent visit to F1ance, Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden.
At Rouen, France, he was the
guest Of honor Of the Normandy So
ciety, and his lecture on the Rune
stone was delivered before large and
critical audiences, not only there,
but later in Scandinavia, and elected
high praise, even among some who
differed from him. There is no dis
covery in the past two hundred years,
around which has gathered so much
controversy, as around that of the
Kensington Rhinestone.
Dug up by Olof Gilman, on his
farm in 1898, while grubbing out the
stumps on what once had been an is
land, and under we'll authenticated
circumstances, this famous stone,
with it's clear and convincing inscrip-
ton, has been the subject of thor
ough and searching investigation by
our state archeologist, DR.. Winchell,
who, with Messrs. Mitchell, Schaefer,
Wheeler and Upham, acting as the
Museum Committee of the State His
torical Society, made in April, 1910,
a full and highly critical report, rem
dering favorable opinion Of the au-
thenticity of the stone. 1t has since
been, as we have noted, exhibited
abroad, by Mr.. Holland, and is gener-
ally accepted by all impartial and
thoughtful scholars.
Coming as corroborative evidence,
some l3 years after the discovery Of
the stone, and bearing significantly
upon the massacre it records as oc-
curing at Pelican Lake, there was
plowed up two days. journey north
westerly from Skerry Point, an i'm
portant bit Of evidence, which, the
more it is investigated is looming
larger on the horizon Of certainty.
On the goth Of April, 1911, Fl. 0.
Hansen-S Strand Of Ulen Clay Co.,
while dragging freshly plowed land
few rods from his house, brought
to light a broken bladed sword, heav-
lily coated with rust and incrusta-
tons, which from it's type and make
is of the fashion Of the Morse swords
of the 18th Century. The finding of
this sword and it's full authorization
in every particular, as we'll as it's
bearing on the inscription Of the Rune
Stone, will be told by Mr.. Holland in
the course Of his illustrated lecture.
There are in the public library two
publications containing articles from
the pen Of Mr.. Holland, bearing on
the Rune Stone-1n Harper's Week
| ly, Oct. 9, 1909, page Is, entitled, IAN
Explorers Stone Record which Ante
dates Columbus; a tragic inscription
unearthed in Minnesota."-and in
Harpers Weekly, of March 26, 1910
"a Fourteenth Century Columbus"
Mr.. Hollands coming to Willmar is
at this time only made possible from
the fact that he is under engagement
to deliver an address before the Nor
wegian society, Minneapolis, Apr,
Oath and the coming to Willmar is ar
extension Of his original trip on The
pressing invitation of a persona.
friend.
We should consider it a great priv.
ilege to hear and see at first hand
what heretofore has been the privil.
ege only Of the larger cities and cen.
tiers of learning in this country anG
Europe.