Editing Barrett, Minnesota (section)

==The "Elbow Lake" Runestone==
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In August 1949, the nearest local newspaper to Barrett, the ''[[Elbow Lake, Grant County, Minnesota|Elbow Lake]] Herald'', reported that, five years earlier, farmer Victor Setterlund had found on his land, near Barrett Lake, a heart-shaped stone weighing about {{convert|75|lbs}},  bearing a runic inscription. Translated, the runic message was "[Year ????]. Four maidens camped on this hill." [[Hjalmar Holand]], principal promoter of the [[Kensington Runestone]] (not far to the south-east of Barrett in 1898) interpreted the year symbols as 1362, the same as the Kensington stone. Professor [[Johan Andreas Holvik]] thought they should be read as 1776. Both agreed that the stone seemed to be a hoax. When Holvik revisited the area and asked Setterlund what the year symbols were meant to represent, the farmer confessed that he had carved the stone himself, using a list of runes in a textbook, and intended the date 1876, adding "It sure doesn't take much to put some people on if they want to believe you bad enough."<ref>David A. Sprunger, [http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/57/v57i03p140-154.pdf "Mystery & Obsession: J.A. Holvik and the Kensington Runestone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017192951/http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/57/v57i03p140-154.pdf |date=October 17, 2011 }}, in ''Minnesota History'' (Fall 2000), Minnesota Historical Society</ref>