Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-24
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h1alm1r X. Holland viii Deliver
Lecture Next Friday Night
NE2ztBn al Opera House.
Next Friday evening, April 26, al
the Willmar opera house, Mr.. HAL.
mar Rued Holland will give an illus.
trated talk on the celebrated Ken.
sington Rune Stone, the Ulen Sword
and their bearing, historically ant
archealogically, on the early history
of America, and that of Minnesota il
particular.
Mr.. Hollands lecture, illustrated BY
many fine views, will include his re.
cent visit to France, Denmark, Nor.
way and Sweden. He will also ex.
hibit the Ulen Sword, the finding o1
which proves the early visit o1
Norsemen III Minnesota.
At Rouen, France, he was the
guest Of honor Of the Normandy So
ciety, and his lecture on the Rune
stone was delivered before lalge 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 ar
island, and under we'll authenticated
circumstances, this famous stone
with it's clear and convincing inscrip.
ton, has been the subject Of a thor.
ough and searching investigation by
our state archealogist, DR.. Winchell
who, with Messrs. Mitchell, Schaefer
Wheeler and Upham, acting as thu
Museum Committee of the State His.
torical Society, made in April, 1910
Il full and highly critical report, rem.
dering a favorable opinion Of th'
authenticity Of the stone. It has
since been, as we have noted, exhib'
tied abroad, by Mr.. Holland, and is
generally accepted by all impartia
and thoughtful scholars.
Coming as corroborative evidence
some 13 years after the discovery Of
the stone, and bearing significantly
upon the massacre it records as oc.
curing at Pelican Lake, there was
olowed up two days. journey north
westerly from Skerry Point, an i'm.
portant bit Of evidence, which th'
more it is investigated is looming
larger on the horizon Of certainty.
On. the 10Th Of April, 1911, H. O
Hansen Strand Of Ulen, Clay Co.
while dragging freshly. plowed lan'
few rods from his house, brouoh
to light a broken bladed sword, heav
|: lily coated with rust and incrusta
tions, which from it's type and max
| is Of the fashion of the Morse sword
of the 14th century. The finding o
this sword and it's full authenticatiol
in every particular, as well as it
bearing on the inscription Of the Run
Stone, will be told by Mr.. Holland il
the course of his illustrated lecture
There are in the public library tw
publications containing articles iron
the pen of Mr.. Holland, bearing o.
the Rune Stone-In Harper's Week
lily, Oct. 9, 1909, page Is, entitled
"An Explorers Stone Record whicI
Antedates Columbus; tragic in
scription unearthed in Minnesota. -
and in Harper's Weekly, Of Marc
l26, 1910, "A Fourteenth Century Co
lumbus."
Mr.. Hollands coming to Wilma
lis, at this time only made possibl
from the fact that he is under en-
gagement to deliver an address be
fore the Norwegian society, Mime
apolis, April Oath and the coming t
Wil]mar is an extension Of his orig
inal trip on the pressing invitation o
a personal friend.
We should consider it a great priv
ilege to hear and see at first hant
what heretofore has been the privil
ege only Of the larger cities and cen
tiers Of learning in this country an
Europe. Admission to any part Q
1.-The house will be SOC.