Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

Scholars believe that early peoples used the runes originally as a means ... and in recent times the Vikings' enigmatic alphabet has had a resurgence at the hands of everyone from Nazis to New ...

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating ...

The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD. How these letters originated and evolved has long been a mystery. "The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stone ...

When the Vikings did write things down, they used a completely different type of writing to us called runes. Rather than letters of the alphabet, runes used symbols. There were at least three ...

Archaeologists have made pre-Viking Norse language discovery atgrave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with Germanic ...

Archaeologists have found “compelling” new evidence as to who might have owned a Viking Age hoard of more than 5kg of gold, silver and other treasures. A newly translated runic inscription has ...

However, while the Vikings used a runic alphabet called younger futhark, earlier examples that predate the emergence of this warrior culture are typically written in older futhark. In use until ...