Experts believe the carvings date to the early 1800s and may have been made by Swedish fur traders in the area.

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A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as ... of the 24 known characters in the elder futhark appear, suggesting this ...

A team of researchers from the University of Oslo uncovered fragments of runestones older than 2,000 years at the ancient cemetery in Svingerud, Norway. Dated between 50 BCE and 275 CE, the ...

and their logo is believed by fans to reference the Elder Futhark, the world’s oldest runic alphabet. Taken to an extreme, it could almost be studied like an ancient text. The intrigue – and ...

It was used to write Proto-Norse language, predecessor of Old Norse. The Younger Futhark, also called Scandinavian runes, is a runic alphabet and a reduced form of the Elder Futhark, with only 16 ...

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The ancient language bears a great resemblance to ciphers in Germanic runes, Latin, elder futhark, and the Greek alphabet. According to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, there are four prevailing ...

shield and ponytail The runes themselves seem to be a form of the "Elder Futhark" script, which was used between the second and 10th centuries, said Jakob Bonde, a curator at the Odense Museum who ...