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  title info:
    title: Myths of the Rune Stone
    sub title: Viking martyrs and the birthplace of America
  name:
    name part: Krueger, David M.
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community's and a state's identity for decades. In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher Columbus's exploration, in which Viking missionaries reached what is now Minnesota in 1362 only to be massacred by Indians. The tale's credibility was quickly challenged and ultimately undermined by experts, but the myth took hold. Faith in the authenticity of the Kensington Rune Stone was a crucial part of the local Nordic identity. Accepted and proclaimed as truth, the story of the Rune Stone recast Native Americans as villains. The community used the account as the basis for civic celebrations for years, and advocates for the stone continue to promote its validity despite the overwhelming evidence that it was a hoax. Krueger puts this stubborn conviction in context and shows how confidence in the legitimacy of the stone has deep implications for a wide variety of Minnesotans who embraced it, including Scandinavian immigrants, Catholics, small-town boosters and those who desired to commemorate the white settlers who died in the Dakota War of 1862. Krueger demonstrates how the resilient belief in the Rune Stone is a form of civil religion, with aspects that defy logic but illustrate how communities characterize themselves. He reveals something unique about America's preoccupation with divine right and its troubled way of coming to terms with the history of the continent's first residents. By considering who is included, who is left out, and how heroes and villains are created, Myths of the Rune Stone offers an enlightening perspective on not just Minnesota but the United States …
  table of contents: Introduction: A Holy Mission to Minnesota -- 1. Westward from Vinland : An Immigrant Saga by Hjalmar Holand -- 2. Knutson's Last Stand : Fabricating the First White Martyrs of the American West -- 3. In Defense of Main Street : The Kensington Rune Stone as a Midwestern Plymouth Rock -- 4. Our Lady of the Runestone and America's Baptism with Catholic Blood -- 5. Immortal Rock : Cold War Religion, Centennials, and the Return of the Skraelings -- Conclusion: The Enduring Legacy of American Viking Myths.
  note: David M. Krueger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-mn
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Kensington Rune Stone
  subject:
    topic: Vikings
    geographic: Minnesota
    genre: Legends
  subject:
    topic: Civil religion
    geographic: Minnesota
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Community life
    geographic: Minnesota
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Group identity
    geographic: Minnesota
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    geographic: Minnesota
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Minnesota
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Civil religion
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Legends
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Ethnicity
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
  classification: E105 .K78 2015
  classification: 305.8009776
  identifier: 9780816696918
  identifier: 0816696918
  identifier: 9780816696963
  identifier: 0816696969
  identifier: 2015013268
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150522
    record change date: 20170928135320.0
    record identifier: in00003525148