Richard Nielsen

Richard Nielsen of Houston, Texas, an amateur researcher on the linguistics and runology of the Kensington Runestone, grew up in a Danish-speaking home in California, earned a doctorate in materials science from the Technical University of Denmark, and developed an intense interest in the Kensington Runestone (KRS) while living in Scandinavia working as a consulting engineer.

When Nielsen returned to the USA in 1985, he pursued his interest on the Scandinavian runes, words, and dialects of the KRS inscription. He has had several KRS articles published in scientific journalsFact|date=November 2007.

Minnesota Geologist Scott F. Wolter examined the KRS surface and rune-carving extensively with an electron microscope and has written reports on his findings. In 2004 Nielsen and Wolter travelled with the KRS to the historical museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Nielsen and Wolter have co-authored "The Kensington Runestone: Compelling New Evidence", Lake Superior Agate Publishing, 2005.

References

*Robert A. Hall Jr.,The Kensington Rune-Stone:Authentic and Important,Jupiter Press,1994.
*Barry J. Hanson,"Kensington Runestone: A Defense of Olof Ohman the Accused Forger", Volumes I&II, Morris Publishing, 2002.
*Alice Beck Kehoe, "The Kensington Runestone: Approaching a Research Question Holistically", Waveland Press, 2005.
* http://www.KensingtonRunestone.com