Show UU VIKINGS EVER IN MINNESOTA I Finding of Ancient Anchor Thought I to Be Proof of Presence i Crookston Minn Photographs have i been taken of the ancient Norse an I chor found on the state experiment farm the other day and copies of these will ho sent to the Swedish and Norwegian goveinments In the hope of ascertaining the true hlstot Icnl value of the discovery The anchor an-chor Itself will be sent either to the I Smithsonian Institution or homo museum mu-seum and efforts will be made to connect It with the supposed visit of I the Norsemen to the continent of North America centuries before tho discovery by Columbus I i According to tradition Lief Erlkson I left a party of 60 men when he touched on tho North American coast and It Is possible that this anchor Is u relic of that little band of whom nothing ever was heard afterward The anchor is light weighing not more than 30 pounds It consists of u rather heavy cylindrIcal centerpiece center-piece and from sockets on either slde prongs project the prongs swinging I on Iron pins through the center of tho cylinder I From tho nature of the stratum of clay In which the anchor was found It Is certain that the earth had not I > eon disturbed for centuries as the clay was not mixed with the least particle of black dirt Tho depth at which the anchor was found and the fact that It was Imbedded In solid clay probably I accounts for Its good state of preservation Efforts are being mode to discover other evidence of tho Norsemens presence In this punt of the Country I |