The problem here is that the arguments against it being fake rest on the same shaky ground of potentially obsolete science as the argument for it being genuine.

The problem here is that the arguments against it being fake rest on the same shaky ground of potentially obsolete science as the argument for it being genuine. see http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm There was a huge shift in the academic literature on the medieval Norsemen and how the runic language changed doing the middle ages, doing the 60ies and 70ies when old monastic scripture gave way to tax records, archeology and "/experimental archeology/". that renders a lot of what still in the textbooks on who the Norsemen were kind of obsolete.