# The forms are medieval, including rare variants and pentadic numerals used in the fourteenth century.

> Disputed: The forms are medieval, including rare variants and pentadic numerals used in the fourteenth century.

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# The forms are medieval, including rare variants and pentadic numerals used in the fourteenth century.

The forms are medieval, including rare variants and pentadic numerals used in the fourteenth century.

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## Where it stands

**Disputed** No evidence yet. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Each Kensington form has a match in the Scandinavian Runic-text Database before 1400.

## What would rule it out

- Some forms have no medieval match but a match in nineteenth-century rune rows.

## The questions it answers

[Where do the Kensington rune forms and numerals come from?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/kensington-runestone/questions/QST0CT1HV342PKD/where-do-the-kensington-rune-forms-and-numerals-come-from)

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

Most likelyThe forms come from the rune row in Eric Ström's 1876 textbook as transmitted among Swedish rune writers

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