 Maggie MandaranoMANITOBA ODIN STONE
The Odin stone is a grey clay fossil going back many generations in the Lake Winnipeg area. It is believed that the hole is made by a reed of grass that grew in the clay. The clay hardened around it�in time calcifying into a stone, and made its way to the shores of Gimli.
The name �odin stone� came from an actual ODIN STONE, a monolith, that stood in Orkney (from around 3000BC), off the coast of Great Britain. The stone was named so by the Vikings that appeared in the area around 600AD. When people immigrated form that area into Gimli, MB and found these stoned they gave it the same name. It is also called the �wishing stone�.
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