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Ancient Viking Runestone Warns Of ‘Extremely Ominous’ Climate Change, New Discovery Reveals
After more than 1,000 years, researchers believe they've finally decoded the mystery of the world's longest runestone, a ...
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Runes Through Time
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 ...
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She Was A Powerful Viking Queen During The Tenth Century, And Researchers Learned More About Her Through Rune Stones
Historians know a lot about Viking-age Denmark through their use of special rune stones, stones with inscriptions that ...
CNN20d
World’s oldest rune stone has more pieces that contain mysterious messages, researchers say
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.
CNN19d
A mysterious woman may have left her mark on the world’s oldest rune stone
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 ...
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The ancient Viking runestone revealing a modern fear
The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...