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Co-host of the television series "Secrets of the Viking Stone," Elroy Balgaard, will give a presentation on the Kensington Runestone on Saturday, April 29, 125 years after its discovery.
53:00 Monday, January 11, 2021 - Secrets of the Viking Stone is a new show on the Science Channel. Peter Stormare, known for his role in FARGO, and history enthusiast Elroy Balgaard set out to solve the mystery of the famed Kensington Runestone. We visit with Stormare. Biologist Chuck Lura talks about hills, mountains, and buttes in this week’s Natural North Dakota essay, Mountain Removal Project. Laurel Reuter is the executive director of the North Dakota Museum of Art. We check in with her in our series of interviews looking back on how the global pandemic impacted organizations across ...
Saturday January 2 and Sunday January 3, 2021 | “Elizabeth is Missing” on PBS.
A piece of central Minnesota history allegedly tied back to the Vikings of the 1300's is going to be the center of attention on a new Science Channel show. The Kensington Runestone is a 202-pound stone tablet that was discovered by Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant in Solem Township in Douglas County. The stone was said to be unearthed when Olof was clearing a field in 1898 and is inscribed with a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century. The authenticity of the stone has been widely debated: Some Norwegians claimed the stone was a Swedish hoax and there were simil...
Kensington Runestone in Alexandria the Subject of a New TV Show A piece of central Minnesota history tied back to the Vikings of the 1300's is going to be the center of attention on a new Science Channel show. The Kensington Runestone is a 202-pound stone tablet that was discovered by Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant in Solem Township in Douglas County. The stone was allegedly unearthed when Olof was clearing a field in 1898, and is inscribed with a record left behind by Scandinavian explorers in the 14th century. The authenticity of the stone has been widely debated: Some Norwegians clai...