Red Ice TV - Runes & Boat Rock Carving Discovered In Canada, Hidden 7 Years Until ＂Explanation＂ Could Be Found

00:00:00.440 Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists.

00:00:05.040 Why was it carved here? What is the text?

00:00:07.200 There are no answers.

00:00:08.420 Now, we do have some answers, but keep in mind here, too.

00:00:11.560 This was just released, essentially.

00:00:15.280 However, they've been sitting on this for seven years, I believe.

00:00:21.140 They're revealing it only after they claim that they've solved the issue,

00:00:24.260 which puts it in this different category.

00:00:26.700 What is this? What are we looking at here?

00:00:29.140 Until we can come up with a story to cover for this, we won't say anything.

00:00:34.240 Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find

00:00:38.240 located deep in the Canadian wilderness.

00:00:41.000 But after years of research, analysis, and historical corroboration,

00:00:44.320 an interdisciplinary team has finally made their findings available to the public.

00:00:49.660 Why didn't they do it sooner?

00:00:51.260 Tucked away in a forest approximately 465 miles northwest of Ottawa,

00:00:56.600 a massive slab of bedrock features a hand-etched rendition of the full Lord's Prayer.

00:01:04.080 But the religious text isn't inscribed in French or English.

00:01:07.000 It's composed of over 250 symbols from the oldest known runic alphabet.

00:01:12.020 The perplexing discovery happened completely by chance, according to the CBC.

00:01:16.840 Hidden for centuries, the stone became exposed only after a tree fell near the town of Wawa,

00:01:21.160 not far from Lake Superior.

00:01:23.440 A closer inspection showed that someone had etched 255 runes into a roughly 4 by 5 foot section of the slab.

00:01:31.320 Additionally, they took the time to add a detailed illustration of a boat.

00:01:36.040 Now, keep that in mind, too.

00:01:36.840 I'll talk more about that later.

00:01:38.280 An additional 16 runic signs and 14 X markings.

00:01:41.760 If you have enough RAM space up in your brain, remember that, too.

00:01:46.100 Photos of the site soon wound up in front of Ryan Primrose,

00:01:49.540 president of the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education,

00:01:52.060 who was immediately stunned by the images.

00:01:53.780 It's certainly among the least expected discoveries of my career.

00:01:57.220 It's absolutely fascinating.

00:01:58.760 However, Primrose didn't want anyone jumping to conclusions about the inscription.

00:02:02.780 Yeah, why is that now?

00:02:04.480 See?

00:02:05.580 While it's true that Viking explored portions of present-day Canada thousands of years ago,

00:02:10.480 he doubted that they were responsible for the mystery message.

00:02:14.080 They could.

00:02:15.120 It's impossible.

00:02:16.060 Okay.

00:02:16.500 Sure, they came over with the boats.

00:02:18.100 Sure, they had settlements.

00:02:19.180 Sure, we find also rock and runestones and rock carvings of North origin

00:02:23.780 in other parts of the U.S. and things like this.

00:02:26.360 But they possibly can't have made it there.

00:02:28.660 Yeah, exactly.

00:02:29.320 And what if it was in Arabic?

00:02:30.340 Would they be saying the same thing?

00:02:31.580 They would have revealed it right.

00:02:32.600 See proof that the Muslims were here. 1.00

00:02:35.960 Everyone's welcome.

00:02:36.800 Kind of thing, right?

00:02:37.220 We didn't want to release anything public until we had done as much analysis as possible yet to cover it up.

00:02:43.100 He soon contacted Uppsala University Emeritus Professor of Ruinology, Henrik Williams,

00:02:49.040 and helped the renowned expert arrange a visit to the site the following October.

00:02:54.920 I was under a tarpaulin for three hours with a flashlight looking at the runes,

00:02:58.160 and others were sitting outside freezing, recalled Williams.

00:03:01.340 The group's patience and endurance paid off.

00:03:03.260 Williams eventually determined that the message was written with the Futhark alphabetic runes.

00:03:08.400 Like, yeah, I could have told you that I was just looking at the image.

00:03:12.440 I mean, sure, I'm not against, obviously, full analysis and looking at things,

00:03:16.060 but I'm saying it's just like, well, it can't be this, so what is it?

00:03:21.180 Okay, I'll look at it.

00:03:22.140 And three hours later, I'm forced to the conclusion that, yes, it's runes on there.

00:03:27.620 You know, first developed, used by Germanic peoples.

00:03:30.060 We know the history, of course, it goes way back, and, of course, this, as more finds are made.

00:03:35.520 The 2nd and the 8th century CE, I believe there's one in Norway that predates,

00:03:40.080 it was like 200 BC or something, at least, possibly 400 BC.

00:03:45.060 There's other things, there are finds all the time.

00:03:47.540 It goes way back, but just be, and furthermore, we should mention

00:03:51.020 how hard and difficult it is to put a date on when you carved something in a rock.

00:03:56.540 You know what I mean?

00:03:57.060 Yeah, exactly.

00:03:57.840 But they look at surrounding things, the soil around it, all kinds of things, right?

00:04:01.860 So, yeah, maybe somewhat in the ballpark could be accurate, but also at the same time,

00:04:05.920 could be carved in the rock many hundreds or even thousands of years before that,

00:04:09.180 and then eventually someone shows up and they use the site again,

00:04:11.640 or it's continuously used or something, right?

00:04:14.080 They're trying to claim here, I can pull up another piece, the CBC piece,

00:04:17.460 because they say, we've solved it.

00:04:19.220 They mentioned Swedes right there, did you see that?

00:04:20.800 Yeah, so they're blaming the Swedes on this one.

00:04:25.780 The Swedes founded Canada, that's it, it belongs to Sweden.

00:04:29.700 The theory is that the carving was made in early 1800s

00:04:34.220 by a Swedish person working for the Hudson Bay Company.

00:04:39.060 How?

00:04:39.920 You can scroll down, here's an actual inscription kind of thing.

00:04:42.280 So it's the Lord's Prayer.

00:04:43.420 Now, this is not uncommon, and I'll mention more about that in a moment.

00:04:46.500 He realized that the runic writings spell out the words of the Lord's Prayer in Swedish

00:04:51.180 and traced it back to a 1611 runic version of the prayer,

00:04:56.480 which was republished in the 19th century.

00:04:58.640 It must have taken days and days of work.

00:05:01.080 They are really deeply carved into the rock.

00:05:03.100 Someone must have spent a couple of weeks carving this thing, he said,

00:05:06.300 and it must have been a Swede.

00:05:08.820 Were there any Swedes at all here?

00:05:10.360 Primrose said subsequent research has shown that the Hudson Bay Company

00:05:13.440 did hire Swedes in the 1800s to work at trading posts in the Canadian wilderness,

00:05:18.060 including Mitch Potten Post, not too far from where the carving was found.

00:05:21.760 He says his going theory, based on how worn the carving is,

00:05:27.820 is that it was likely made in the early-mid-1800s, as he said.

00:05:31.880 Williams admitted that, being a little disappointed that it's only about 200 years old,

00:05:36.280 but says the mystery around it doesn't decrease,

00:05:39.040 just because it's slightly younger than we hoped it was.

00:05:40.840 Well, obviously, this is, okay, so I think this is a cover story,

00:05:44.760 but it's a possibility, who knows?

00:05:47.700 Anybody has started wondering, why on earth did they carve it here,

00:05:50.240 and why did they choose that text?

00:05:51.920 There are no answers.

00:05:53.300 So they've done this with the Kensington Runestone.

00:05:56.140 They have done this with the, what was it, was it like Omaha, or what was it?

00:06:00.480 There's a number of them that are found, and every time,

00:06:03.760 oh, it was totally written by this recent guy.

00:06:06.060 Yes, no correlation.

00:06:07.100 No, actively covering up.

00:06:09.120 Of course, it's possible, right?

00:06:10.320 There's happened to be all these people, just recently,

00:06:13.420 that were carving, you know, runes and stones.

00:06:16.000 So there are finds.

00:06:17.720 There's documented the Viking went over about 500 years before Columbus.

00:06:22.120 There's evidence that they pushed deeply into, right?

00:06:25.760 Let me pull up the, we did a show here, for example,

00:06:28.300 if you listen to this one, in the Red Ice Members' archives,

00:06:32.000 The Last Kings of North America.

00:06:33.640 I can't remember everything of it now.

00:06:35.180 They wrote a book on this, but they talked about how they pushed into,

00:06:38.440 way deep into continental U.S., I mean, into the Midwest,

00:06:43.900 and like, you know, all these areas that go along the rivers.

00:06:46.060 They have found tons of sites and remnants,

00:06:50.220 which, again, hasn't been, like, officially kind of recognized.

00:06:53.020 Remember the thing about the Kennewick man, for example, right?

00:06:55.920 You have skeletal finds.

00:06:57.040 You can do the Solutrean thing if you want.

00:06:59.780 Ice Age Europeans might have been over here, all kinds of things.

00:07:01.960 But anyway, we don't have to go there now.

00:07:03.700 Heck, even Leif Erikson.

00:07:04.820 Let's make that more mainstream, too.

00:07:06.820 Of course, yeah, but they were forced to admit that.

00:07:09.080 There's actually built buildings and settlements and everything.

00:07:11.340 It's like, they can't deny that.

00:07:12.300 But then there's this denial that, like,

00:07:13.660 they possibly can't have gone in further, right?

00:07:16.280 So they don't officially recognize some of this stuff.

00:07:18.520 And with the Kennewick man, it was like this,

00:07:21.200 clearly just a brief examination of the skull.

00:07:23.580 This is a European skull.

00:07:24.780 This is not a, quote-unquote, Native American skull.

00:07:26.920 There's all these things.

00:07:27.540 And then the Native Americans came in and said, 0.85

00:07:29.460 ah, ah, ah, you're not doing that.

00:07:30.520 This is sacred to us.

00:07:31.540 Okay, let's cover it.

00:07:32.900 And it feels like it was almost together with the authorities.

00:07:36.120 They're like, okay, yeah, just claim some religious thing.

00:07:38.880 Just in case. It is a European man.

00:07:40.760 It upsets the whole history, right?

00:07:42.820 So this is an interesting interview if you want to dig deep more into that,

00:07:45.440 the last kings of Norse America.

00:07:48.220 You know, the Kensington Runestone has reference to the Lord's Prayer as well.

00:07:53.400 And, of course, one of the reasons for that is because you did have

00:07:55.740 an early Christianization, and it's even possible that some of the explorers,

00:08:00.520 because of, again, I'm just speculating, but because of religious conflict,

00:08:04.280 maybe they were more prone to go on other ventures or journeys or something like that.

00:08:08.820 I'm not sure.

00:08:10.660 It's also well known that the Goths, for example, were Christianized first,

00:08:15.580 because that seems to have been more or less the power center of Sweden at that time.

00:08:19.220 This is why Mala Dolan, further up north towards the Stockholm area,

00:08:23.220 later become the seat of, like, pagan Sweden.

00:08:26.360 And now the Gothic people that still have connection with the Goths in, like,

00:08:30.600 Eastern and Spain region, basically.

00:08:32.980 Those Goths are the Visigoths and the Austrogoths. 1.00

00:08:35.320 So there's still evidence of connection between them,

00:08:37.300 and we have that because there's, like, Roman coins found up in Sweden

00:08:39.780 and all kinds of things, right, going way back.

00:08:42.120 So they probably had connection.

00:08:43.220 And the Goths down there got Christianized, 0.99

00:08:45.480 and they were probably travels, and they were missionaries.

00:08:47.480 They started with something called Arian Christianity, Arianism.

00:08:50.580 It's not Arian with a Y, but with an I, Arianism. 0.98

00:08:55.540 And Wulfius wrote the Silver Bible, a Gothic Bible,

00:08:59.460 fascinating story, that whole thing.

00:09:01.120 But he basically pitched Christianity to them with Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

00:09:07.680 as kind of like Odin, Thor, and Frey.

00:09:11.100 So it's like, oh, it's kind of like what you guys have already,

00:09:14.460 you know, kind of thing.

00:09:15.260 It's kind of the same, really.

00:09:16.600 And that's why it was considered heresy eventually,

00:09:19.500 and Arianism was, like, outlawed, more or less.

00:09:21.740 It was like battles with this.

00:09:22.680 But anyway, why I'm bringing up the Goths is because on the Kensington 0.94

00:09:26.200 Runestone, it mentioned something that was, I forget the number now,

00:09:30.000 but it's like they talk about an incident that happened.

00:09:32.400 They probably encountered some of the natives.

00:09:33.860 It was a battle.

00:09:34.520 And I think it was something like 20 Norsemen and 8 Goths visited here

00:09:42.000 at this date, and this happened, and these people were, you know,

00:09:45.220 bloodied, you know, by axes or something, or, you know.

00:09:49.080 And they've tried to debunk the Kensington Runestone,

00:09:51.260 but I think it's legit, you know what I mean?

00:09:53.560 I think it's, because again, you have to take all the things into account

00:09:56.640 and look at the wider picture.

00:09:58.220 It's like, okay, you can argue how deep they, you know, went,

00:10:01.340 how far west did they go in the U.S., but their presence is known,

00:10:05.240 so this wouldn't be out of the picture.

00:10:06.660 Now, what they have on this one, too, let me see if I have a picture of this.

00:10:08.940 Look at this.

00:10:09.380 This is a petroglyph.

00:10:11.120 This is our logo kind of thing, right?

00:10:12.820 Do you see that?

00:10:13.260 Yeah, the ship.

00:10:13.860 The ship there, right?

00:10:15.100 We came here by boat.

00:10:17.080 Well.

00:10:17.320 Is that what that's saying?

00:10:18.360 What I'm saying, too, is the petroglyphs are significantly older,

00:10:22.580 and they're pinning this on, oh, sometime in the 1800s, right?

00:10:26.280 But if you look at those types of rock carvings, so they're rediscovered,

00:10:33.040 and part of that is because the rock that they carved on,

00:10:35.920 and again, the boats, the petroglyphs, those are, we don't know,

00:10:40.120 3,000, 4,000 years ago, maybe more, maybe a little slightly less.

00:10:43.560 We don't know.

00:10:43.940 This is like going way back.

00:10:45.840 Runes sure is later, although we don't know how long they had that.

00:10:48.620 There's a first record of someone basically rediscovering the rock carvings.

00:10:52.760 The land has been rising, so the sea levels are much further down now

00:10:56.440 than they used to be in those days.

00:10:57.660 The rock carvings were basically just right up where the boat line used to be,

00:11:01.980 so you can even deduce it in that way and say, okay,

00:11:03.780 how much does it recede each year?

00:11:06.240 And then you can count backwards and kind of say, okay,

00:11:08.040 so the water line would have been here when these were carved

00:11:10.660 because they were boat people, right?

00:11:12.840 So these boats are much older, so someone stumbles on them in 1627,

00:11:16.640 but it's not kind of officially in seven deaths more than 100 years later

00:11:21.560 when there were professional recordings of these rock carvings

00:11:25.620 in Tarnum and other areas in, you know,

00:11:27.720 kind of close to the border towards Norway in Sweden.

00:11:31.560 Carl Gustav Gottfried Hilfing made those.

00:11:35.060 So 1792, we're almost in the 1800s, right?

00:11:39.480 This wasn't widely known.

00:11:40.980 This was a small university academic type thing.

00:11:44.880 You tell me they're hired.

00:11:45.700 It's not like they had the internet back then.

00:11:47.460 Yeah, but put it in context, right?

00:11:48.960 He does a boat like that, identical, essentially, in the rock.

00:11:54.260 There it is.

00:11:55.960 To a presumably, what, a Swedish worker for the Hudson Bay Company

00:12:01.340 somehow has knowledge just 20, 30 years later

00:12:05.880 after they first start actually documenting that these things are found,

00:12:09.220 and he immediately goes on to a runic alphabet

00:12:11.440 and types in those rock carvings immediately.

00:12:13.440 It doesn't make sense to me, the timeline in terms of like

00:12:16.180 when they were officially recognized, when they rediscovered these things.

00:12:20.000 And then this guy, random guy, who I presume wasn't some academic,

00:12:24.660 he was probably working some fairly menial job,

00:12:27.740 has knowledge of this.

00:12:29.300 And what would be his motivation, even, if it's true?

00:12:32.140 I don't know.

00:12:32.740 No one knows that.

00:12:33.560 But, you know, I just, it doesn't make sense to me.

00:12:36.820 So I think they're covering it up.

00:12:38.160 That's what I think they're doing.

00:12:39.100 There's other finds.

00:12:39.620 Well, it's always that.

00:12:40.440 When there's evidence that there were white people in America 0.81

00:12:44.400 years before Columbus or Canada,

00:12:47.680 it's like, oh, we can't talk about that, right?

00:12:49.560 We can't even look at it because that's white supremacists,

00:12:52.800 that's pseudoscience, that's racism, right?

00:12:55.540 Well, they do this when there's, they call them like,

00:12:57.800 where there's an artifact.

00:12:59.060 I guess this would technically be that, right?

00:13:00.720 They call them oop arts, out-of-place artifacts.

00:13:03.280 Here's the timeline.

00:13:04.260 We know what happened historically.

00:13:05.580 Here's an object that shows up.

00:13:06.760 Well, since that doesn't fit the main timeline we have,

00:13:09.920 okay, well, okay, just either make something up

00:13:12.840 or come up with a, oh, I looked, it was,

00:13:14.920 oh, well, there was a Swedish guy once working

00:13:16.660 at the Hudson Bay Company, so it must have been him.

00:13:18.880 You know what I mean?

00:13:19.300 And again, it's very hard to date these things.

00:13:21.040 I understand that.

00:13:22.420 But here's one I learned of just the other day.

00:13:25.520 The Narragansett runestone in Rhode Island.

00:13:29.860 Hey, we're back to Rhode Island.

00:13:31.000 Remember we played a video there, Newport, Rhode Island?

00:13:34.400 Bowens Wharf?

00:13:35.980 What was it again here?

00:13:36.640 All the white people hanging out?

00:13:37.960 Rock of the Ages, the mysterious runestone

00:13:39.800 is now an official tourist attraction.

00:13:42.280 There's many others where they try to claim,

00:13:44.320 oh, well, we believe these were Native American,

00:13:46.620 whatnot, you know, kind of thing.

00:13:47.880 The boulder had sat in the waters of Pojack Point

00:13:50.460 for decades, and the origin and meaning

00:13:52.140 of its runic inscriptions have been subject

00:13:54.340 to a fierce debate.

00:13:55.480 Someone believed they were inscribed

00:13:56.420 by shoreline visitors some 600 years ago,

00:13:59.960 possibly Vikings or Native Americans.

00:14:02.780 Yeah, they would totally use the runic.

00:14:04.820 And Native Americans are never white.

00:14:06.160 The Udall rune, the radio rune,

00:14:07.120 and all that stuff like that.

00:14:07.300 Yeah, exactly.

00:14:08.080 Come on.

00:14:08.580 The Futhark, yeah, sure.

00:14:09.980 Come on.

00:14:11.440 Others dismissed that they were in suggest

00:14:14.000 that they were carved in recent decades

00:14:15.860 as a hoax, right?

00:14:16.780 They always do this.

00:14:17.300 Oh, it's probably a hoax.

00:14:18.060 Yeah, it's fake.

00:14:18.660 So I had the guy who did the main analysis

00:14:21.940 of the Kensington rune stone,

00:14:23.540 and he got to know the family,

00:14:24.960 the Olof something that they said had carved it

00:14:28.900 or something like that.

00:14:29.600 He found it like under a tree,

00:14:31.020 which tells the story of their interactions

00:14:32.720 with most likely some of the other natives

00:14:34.480 or something living there at the time.

00:14:36.620 But he also talked about that the hooked ex,

00:14:38.900 which is interesting.

00:14:39.640 And again, I can't remember all the backstory to it now.

00:14:42.060 He kind of ties it into like,

00:14:43.400 oh, yeah, they were kind of Vikings,

00:14:45.380 but it was like an early Christianization that happened

00:14:47.580 and they went on these excursions

00:14:49.040 and the X represents, you know,

00:14:50.680 kind of a cross of sorts, right?

00:14:52.060 But again, that can be debated

00:14:54.200 and what the reasons for that are.

00:14:55.540 But the same thing here.

00:14:56.380 The piece that talked about here

00:14:58.060 was like 14, was it 14 Xs or something?

00:15:00.380 Yeah, 14 X markings,

00:15:02.540 a very detailed boat,

00:15:04.140 which matched those petroglyphic rock carvings

00:15:06.840 thousands and thousands of years ago

00:15:08.320 at a time when that basically wasn't widely known

00:15:11.440 to the public at all.

00:15:12.380 Tottenham became like a recognized UN heritage site

00:15:15.460 in like this 1960s, something like that.

00:15:17.860 I mean, we'd known about them before then,

00:15:19.020 but I'm saying this wasn't known knowledge,

00:15:22.240 you know what I mean?

00:15:22.760 And somehow these guys can just show up

00:15:24.560 and talk about Goths and Vikings

00:15:26.040 and carve these boats in there

00:15:28.360 and know all this interesting,

00:15:30.560 kind of interesting history

00:15:32.180 that I think don't, at that time,

00:15:34.260 wasn't widely known, you know what I mean?

00:15:35.780 So anyway, I don't know.

00:15:36.620 I'm throwing that out there.

00:15:38.680 Either way, I like it.

00:15:39.660 I'm feeling more and more like

00:15:40.600 a Native American every day.

00:15:41.760 I was just going to say.

00:15:43.100 I was going to say.

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Red Ice TV - June 27, 2025

Runes & Boat Rock Carving Discovered In Canada, Hidden 7 Years Until ＂Explanation＂ Could Be Found

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