Numerous stones carved with runes found across Scandinavia bear fascinating messages, such as one about a powerful Viking queen or a warning for frigid climate change based on past events.
Historians know a lot about Viking-age Denmark through their use of special rune stones, stones with inscriptions that ...
Evidence of runic writing exists from the Roman Iron Age and the Viking era, but researchers have puzzled for years over exactly when runes originated. The enigmatic, spidery markings have ...
The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone ...
The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... three of them are inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes with Old English name elements, officials said.