Scandinavian American. [volume], June 01, 1947, Page 10, Image 10

About Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958

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North Dakota Inscription Could
Be Relic 0f Viking Expedition
Submerged beneath the waters
of the Missouri River near Deapo
lis, a grain-elevator station in Cen
tral North Dakota_ 3. large boulder
which has twice emerged atVJVe
the stream when drought had re
duced its flow. is reported to bear
a mysterious inscription which, it
is surmised. may be Runic in
character.
It is near the site of an early
Mandan Indian village. over which
Big White was chief when Lewis
and Clark's expedition stopped
there on its return from the Pa
cific Coast in 1805. He accompan
ied them to Washington. The
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stone seems to have been held in
some religious respect and awe by
the Mandans, who regarded it as
their medicine stone .and consulted
it in the spring of the year for its
oracular prophesies. according to
notes made by Lewis and Clark at
the time.
The reason for lts magic signi
ficance lies in the inscription,
which to date no one has been
competent to translate. Whether
it be an Indlan pictognaph, an
early settler's fanciful attempt to
make some record, or as Hjalmar
R. Holand suspects, a relic of the
13th century Norse expedition to
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Because the Missouri River
changes its course so freduently,
teh stone may now be more infre
quently revealed than it was in
Lewis and Clark’s time when the
Indians visited it annually to learn
its message, for it has recently
been exposed only twice, once in
1894 when an interested group
studied it casually and reported
upon its strange markings which
they were unable to decipher: and
again forty years later it was
again reported by another inter
ested group when it was again
exposed.
The interesting relationship
about the matter is that the Man
dan Indians were both physically
different in their lighter pigmen
tation and culturally more ad
vanced in the character of their
activities and settlements from
neighboring tribes. and conse
quently the inference had been
drawn that the Norsemen were
adopted into the Mandan tribe and
affected its blood and culture.
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