The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate ... Rune Masters were also skilled in the art of rune casting, a method of divination. In one common rune-casting technique, the diviner carved ...

A silver armband discovered in a surprisingly large hoard buried in Scotland reveal more about ancient this ancient era.

Rushen Heritage Centre opens for the new season this week with an exhibition delving into Viking life in the Isle of Man. The ...

The Galloway Hoard is one of the most significant—and mysterious—Viking-era treasures ever to ... four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes, it may have been the property of four parties.

They believed that their runic alphabet could be used to ... The practitioners were called Volva. The Vikings believed that ...

This was useful for helping to decide who could inherit land and wealth. Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial chamber on Orkney by Vikings ...