Centuries-old archaeological finds pertaining to the Bible are often fascinating, but how many of them are found … in North America? That's what happened in a Canadian forest north of the Michigan border.
The relic consists of an inscription of 255 symbols carved into a rock over 200 years ago.
Here's more on the curious find from The Daily Mail:
The writing was discovered in 2018 after a fallen tree revealed the square-shaped inscription near the town of Wawa, located about 155 miles from the nearest US border crossing in Michigan.
Ryan Primrose, an archaeologist from the Ontario Center for Archaeological Education, has now revealed that the symbols form the Lord's Prayer — a well-known Christian prayer — written in Swedish.
Here's a picture:
Gotta love those Swedes.
The symbols were identified as "Nordic runes," which makes them sound even cooler.
It was a surprising find in the middle of Canada, but researchers later discovered that Swedish workers were hired by the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1800s to work at remote trading posts — suggesting one of them may have made the carving.
Here's the Lord's Prayer in Swedish, just for fun:
(And a link to the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education's website about the runes, if you want to learn more.)
Because no other objects were found at the site, Primrose believes it may have been a simple outdoor place of worship.
The Lord's Prayer marking a place of Christian worship in Canada with Nordic runes.
That's a real sentence I just typed!
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