These letters are part of the alphabet known as "futhark," named ... According to historians and experts in Norse mythology, the Vikings believed that runes were imbued with the energy of the ...

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate ... also has its own distinct meaning often connected with Norse mythology (see clickable alphabet at left). Scholars believe that early peoples ...

A Norse saga relates the tale of a group of Vikings forced to shelter for three ... Alternatively, students could be given the Norse alphabet and a message written in runes which they must try ...

Roughly 1,000 years ago, the story goes, a Viking trader and adventurer named Thorfinn Karlsefni set off from the west coast of Greenland with three ships and a band of Norse to explore a newly ...

The Vikings were brutal ... and 'a most vile people'. Yet the Norse raiders had a culture as rich and complex as their Christian victims. They believed in a universe made up of nine worlds ...