Several years ago a mysterious large rock in northern Ontario was uncovered after a tree fell. There was a carving on the rock. It surprised even archaeologists. Today the research carries on to try to better understand what was discovered. On the large rock, the place not far from Wawa, there were 255 symbols carved characters in an area of about 4 feet by five and next to the letters there was a carving of a boat with 16 people on it, including 14Xs. What did all this mean? Ryan Primrose, the archaeologist and the director of the Ontario Centre for Archaeological Education, recognized the 255 characters as Nordic runes. It was an old Scandinavian alphabet know as Futhark. Primrose contacted Henrik Williams, a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden who is a leading expert in runology. The conclusion: the runic writing were the words of The Lord's Prayer in Swedish, and traced it was back to 1611where there is evidence of a runic version of the prayer. Primrose believes the carving …
Why the Lord's Prayer? Nobody really knows for sure. We think it was done by those who worked or lived in the area. They believed in God and were Christian.