The carving features what experts now believe to be an 1800s runic interpretation of the Christian Lord’s Prayer. Williams confirmed that the inscription was runic, but disagreed that it was Viking in nature. Williams said that the runic writing was a version of the Christian Lord’s Prayer, which had been carved in Futhark. “It must have taken days and days of work,” Williams told the CBC. “The Wawa stone is Ontario’s first with actual runes, the longest runic inscription of any on the North American continent […] and the only one in the world reproducing the Lord’s Prayer.”