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.

However, accounts of the rock and its runes date back almost 200 years, when it was dubbed Indian Rock since that’s who the locals initially thought had carved the characters. Other Viking runes ...

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping to reveal more about a place and time nearly lost to history. “The hoard has a ripple ...

Evidence of runic writing exists from the Roman Iron Age and the Viking era, but researchers ... Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation pit in 2021 at the Svingerud ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age ... Now, historians have cracked the code. “Carved inside the curved half of the arm-ring the runes read: DIS IS ЇIGNA ˑFˑ.

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language was like before the Viking era. Researchers from the ...