"The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stone are difficult to trace," study co-author Kristel Zilmer, a professor of runology at the University of Oslo ...

Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...

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 ...

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