# The inscription was carved in 1362 by members of a Norse expedition, as it says.

> Disputed: The inscription was carved in 1362 by members of a Norse expedition, as it says.

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# The inscription was carved in 1362 by members of a Norse expedition, as it says.

The inscription was carved in 1362 by members of a Norse expedition, as it says.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** Two pieces of evidence for, two against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Every rune form and grammatical form is attested in Scandinavian writing of the fourteenth century.
- Groove weathering, measured against a calibrated rate, gives an age of several centuries.
- Other material traces of a fourteenth-century Norse presence exist in the region.

## What would rule it out

- Rune forms are shown to derive from a nineteenth-century rune row unknown in the Middle Ages.

## Evidence 2 for · 2 against

[A geologist reported weathering implying at least 200 years.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/evidence/EVD0CT1HW2C0BZH/a-geologist-reported-weathering-implying-at-least-200-years)

Speculative

FOR

[Kehoe cites microscope evidence of weathered incision edges and a fourteenth-century Bohuslän dialect.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/evidence/EVD0CT1HWA61VY2/kehoe-cites-microscope-evidence-of-weathered-incision-edges)

Speculative

FOR

[Linguists from 1910 onward found the language modern.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/evidence/EVD0CT1HWST3RVQ/linguists-from-1910-onward-found-the-language-modern)

Supported

AGAINST

[The stone's runes and pentadic numerals match an alphabet printed in Sweden in 1876.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/evidence/EVD0CT1HWJ000T2/the-stones-runes-and-pentadic-numerals-match-an-alphabet)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[When was the inscription carved?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/questions/QST0CT1HTVA12MW/when-was-the-inscription-carved)

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## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The inscription was carved in 1362 by members of a Norse expedition, as it says. [Answer ANS0CT1HVTJ47JR]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CT1HVTJ47JR
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**ANS** 0CT1HVTJ47JR

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