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The Stone in the Roots: The Kensington Runestone

2026-10-09 · · Impossible Objects · 8 min read

In 1898, a farmer in the state of Minnesota, in the middle of the United States, was clearing trees from a corner of his land.

He was an immigrant from Sweden. That day he was pulling a small poplar tree out of the ground, roots and all.

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