Runic inscriptions from the Viking Age still turn up in Sweden 1,000 years after they were written – revealing fascinating ...
The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are working to ...
Archeologists have found what they think is the oldest example of runes. The writing, which is about 2,000 years old, was found in Norway. Scandinavians likely developed Runic writing after first ...
Across Sweden, ancient rune stones stand quietly in fields, near churches, and along roads. Many people pass them without a ...
A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These pieces, which have been assembled like a puzzle, offer a unique insight ...
Norway revealed a ‘dream stone of all runologists’ providing clues to origins of Western writing. The stone is named after the excavation site and is now being called the Svingerud Stone. Svingerud ...
A Concise History breaks off these later accretions and unearths their long history. Runes’ primary function as an alphabetic writing system is underlined throughout, as part of the ‘uphill battle’ ...
A stone tool used to sharpen Vikings' blades has been found engraved with rare runes. Experts believe mysterious symbols on a chunk of slate are evidence of an practice attempt to carve a name or ...
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