| Norse Mysteries Washington | | | | She said the inscription was filled with a thrilling |
| Fight Between Vikings and Indians 1010 AD | | | | description of action. |
| "Found Viking Grave Near City!" headlined the July 5, | | | | The Record tells how the men put the seven |
| 1926 issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle. It showed | | | | women and baby on top of the boulder. The men |
| a Whale shaped boulder 50 feet long and 15 feet | | | | then stood about the base fighting the Indians. They |
| high. | | | | were greatly outnumbered. |
| On it was a Norse Runic Inscription. Professor | | | | Twelve of the Norsemen were killed. The Indians |
| Opsjohn translated it and dated it 1010 AD. It told of | | | | captured the women and left. The survivors dug a |
| a fight between a band of Vikings (24 men and 7 | | | | grave near the rock and buried the dead. |
| women) and Indians. Half of the men and one | | | | Pictured rocks with runes are scattered across the |
| women were killed and buried at the smaller end of | | | | American continent. They prove beyond a doubt, |
| the boulder. | | | | that the Norse established colonies 500 years before |
| The other Vikings who escaped the battle carved | | | | Columbus. |
| the runes before swimming the Columbia River to | | | | Philip Howell, sage of the Clallam tribe states that his |
| get out of the territory. | | | | grandmother told him of big blond men who came |
| There are also carved pictures of the Norse Goddess | | | | many generations ago. They wandered inland and |
| Freya with gold horns on her helm. The same as | | | | that the rock near Spokane was regarded by the |
| those found in Gotland Denmark and are now in the | | | | Indians as the burial place of the Invaders who were |
| Northern Royal Museum of Denmark. | | | | killed in their battle with the Indians. |
| Margarette Amundson Reynolds, a runic scholar, said | | | | Howell said that blonds among the Clallams were |
| the Viking Grave was the most remarkable discovery | | | | proof of the six Norse women were captured by the |
| ever uncovered on the North American continent. | | | | Indians, and integrated into the tribe. |