Runic Mysteries – Michigan White Indians

Michigan is full of Viking artifacts dating back to 1000 AD

In 1876, Johan Bauer from the town of Wallsange, Sweden, went in search of the “Rings and Runes of Kolberg”. He found them and began his long search for runic mysteries. In 1891, he emigrated with his parents to the United States, where he became editor of a Swedish-language newspaper in Ashland, Wisconsin.

One day an Indian came into the office asking to buy a subscription. Bauer thought it was a joke. The Indian told him that several Indians in the area were descendants of white men. The Indian spoke several words in Swedish that piqued his interest.

Bauer recorded the Indian’s story in a 63-page pamphlet in 1930. The title was “Viking Mettles.” The story of the arrival of the White men with their Runic Mysteries in America in 1010 AD.

The Indians said that white men wore “ice” (armor and helmets). The Indians spoke strange words (Swedish) and used runic spells to ward off evil. Where else could these Indians have learned Swedish words except from the Vikings themselves?

The arrival of the Vikings in AD 1010 is told in dozens of legends and folktales by the elders of the Chippewa, Menominee, Choctow, and Arapahoe.

Why are American historians reluctant to write about these Indian legends?

In 1969, a hunter and five friends went hunting in Lake Country Michigan near the town of Baldwin. One of the hunters slipped while he was going down a slope. He fell through a cover of grass and stones that covered a roof of rotting logs.

It was a room about eight feet square. The ground had rings of fire filled with charcoal. There were conical piles of rocks, burial mounds, beside the well, inscribed with runes.

Betty Sodders in her book “Michigan Pre-History Mysteries” reported other similar runes in the Upper Peninsula.

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