This new research might provide some food for thought:
 
http://www.runestonemuseum.org/new_runestone_info.htm
 
Laurel
----- Original Message -----
From: Haukur Thorgeirsson
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [norse_course] Re: The Kensington Runestone

I'm not quite sure I understand you correctly. The only
thing that looks like an English plural to me is "10 mans".
But this actually doesn't look strange to me as we do it
in Icelandic: "10 manns" is every bit as natural as "10 menn"
(different shades of meaning).

Whether or not this was done in 14th century Scandinavian
I don't know.

KveĆ°ja,
Haukur