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.

The same passage also appears to reference the act of rune-carving, and could therefore indicate that the runes were produced by this female scribe. If confirmed, this would represent the earliest ...

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 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 ...

There are many things the Vikings did that history books won’t tell you about. For example, Vikings landed in North America centuries before Columbus, establishing a settlement at L’Anse aux ...

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 ...