Translates the lettering as a name, “GLOMEDAL”. University of Denmark dates the Heavener Runestone to around 800 A.D., and The lands around present day Oklahoma must have seemed like a great paradise, and could even be called the home of Idun, the Norse goddess of spring and immortal youth. One can almost imagine the Norsemens excitement as they paddled their longboats south into warmer climates, leaving behind the harsh conditions of frigid north. and 1000 A.D., although their exact route is still unknown. It is believed that one of these ships traveled south along the Atlantic coast, into the Gulf of Mexico, up the Mississippi River and into the Arkansas River between 900 A.D. Once established in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, these brave Vikings began to explore other parts of this vast new world. For the next ten years, a great number of voyages were made to the new land, which the Norsemen called "Vinland." Archeologists have extensively explored and documented the Viking settlements in Greenland and others in North America. Nearly fifteen years later, Leif Eriksson finally explored the new continent. His wild ride inspired other Vikings to search for this new land. According to Icelandic Sagas, around 985 A.D., Bjarni Herjolfsson, a Norse settler to Greenland, was blown off course and sighted a continent west of Greenland.
It has been proven that Vikings have visited North American several times in our past. We can only speculate as to why they came, but many archeologists agree that there were, in fact, Vikings in Oklahoma. To be more specific, they have landed in Heavener, Oklahoma.