Scott Wolter

And in 1314, funny, 1314, a few decades before the runestone, there was an Easter table that was prominently used at the time called Olly Worm's Easter table.

And to make a date, you need three things.

You need...

a Sunday letter.

The runic alphabet is called the Futhark because the first letters F-U-thorn-O-R-K and so on.

There's 19 letters in the Futhark in the alphabet at that time, the runic alphabet.

And to make a date, you needed to use one of the first seven letters called the Sunday letter.

And then one of the remaining 12 runes, which they called the golden year.

And the third thing you needed was a column number.

Well, these three things that were singled out on the runestone, eight, the U is F U, that's the, pardon me.

But the U is perfect for a Sunday letter, and the L is the 12th ruin, perfect for a golden year.

So we plotted it on the Easter table.

And guess what year we got?

What year?

1362.

What?

What?

1362, we've already got that carved on the runestone, right?

But here's the problem.

Let's say somebody wanted to get cute and carve an extra bar on the three in 1362.