The 1358 Voyage That Became the Kensington Runestone
This is the episode where the journals speak for themselves. Scott reads directly from the Sinclair Wemyss Journals, starting with Book One and the very first entry on November 5th, 1353, when an eight-year-old Earl Henry Sinclair receives a journal from his father on his eighth birthday with the instruction to write down things he will want to remember when he is a man. What follows is a life told in ink across three books: a boy learning Latin, French, Gaelic and Norwegian, sailing to the Western Lands for the first time at age eight, rescuing an indigenous child from the surf and forming a lifelong friendship with a boy named Ash Kush, losing two wives before the age of twenty, being knighted and initiated into the craft, and learning the esoteric meaning of Gothic cathedral architecture as the body of the sacred feminine. The journals also contain a critical 1357 entry referencing Father Richards and seven acolytes preparing to travel west with 30 men in the spring of 1358, a detail that aligns directly with the 8 Goths and 22 Northmen carved on the Kensington Rune Stone.Book Two covers the 1395 voyage, when Earl Henry departed Kirkwall with eight ships, 120 remaining Knights Templar, and the Zeno navigators from Venice, carrying the treasures hidden in Scotland since 1307 to their predetermined burial locations in North America. The journals confirm that Antonio Zeno was Nicolo's son, not his brother, correcting a detail that historians have debated for centuries based on the 1558 Zeno Narrative. The entries describe violent storms, shipwrecks, the loss of men and vessels, the discovery of indigenous communities who had already encountered white men wearing white tunics with red crosses, and the methodical surveying of islands in what appears to be Mahone Bay for future treasure concealment. Book Three opens in 1398 with the reunion between Earl Henry and Ash Kush, now both in their late 40s, recognizable to each other by the whalebone knife gifted decades earlier. The indigenous people and the Templars share rituals, celebrate an initiation together, and confirm their common veneration of the Great Goddess. The Catherine runs aground on Dog Island, now known as McNab Island near Halifax, and its treasure cargo is buried in two locations. Reports reach Earl Henry that the Kensington party has survived and thrived for 40 years in the mountains near the inner seas, with families, children, and grandchildren of their own.The episode closes with the final entries of Earl Henry's journals: the wintering over in Nova Scotia with 26 men, the building of a new ship, a deepening friendship with the indigenous leader Gray Moose and his family, and the farewell to Ash Kush on May 18th, 1399, as the small boat named the Hannah departs for Greenland and home. Scott reads the final line where Earl Henry watches Ash Kush raise his hand from the shore until he can see him no more, wondering if they will ever meet again. Historically, they never did. The entry of June 12th, 1399 records Earl Henry's safe arrival on the shores of Caithness in Scotland, followed by a list of 111 Templars and seamen who chose to stay behind in North America. An Ojibwa medicine man, asked about the Templars during a sweat lodge ceremony years later, responded with five words: "you mean our blood brothers."————————————————————————————CONNECT WITH SCOTT WOLTER————————————————————————————YouTube ► https://youtube.com/@ScottWolterHookedXInstagram ► https://www.instagram.com/wolterscottTikTok ► https://tiktok.com/@ScottWolterHookedXX / Twitter ► https://x.com/RealScottWolterHit subscribe. The story is just getting started.————————————————————————————#KnightsTemplar #SinclairJournals #EarlHenrySinclair #KensingtonRuneStone #HookedX #AshKush #ZenoNarrative #SacredFeminine #GothicArchitecture #NewportTower #WestfordKnight #TemplarTreasure #AmericanHistory #250thAnniversary #ScottWolter