An investigation into Viking skeletons reveals a hidden story of violence, power, and the surprising differences between neighboring Viking societies. These bones came from all over Norway—from ...

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 ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... three of them are inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes with Old English name elements, officials said.

A Viking-era hoard was found in Scotland in 2014 and now runes on an armband have been translated for the first time. Greenland Solves Political Crisis Hours Before JD Vance Visit Mapped ...

Archaeologists also found the name of Lorange’s sweetheart, Emma Gade, spelled out in Viking runes at the end of the letter in the bottle. Based on the date when Lorange moved to Bergen and took ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was ...

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 ...

Many identified runestones come centuries later in history, during the Viking Age (around the 9th to 11th centuries). The sandstone pieces were primarily dispersed in three graves, designated Hole 1, ...

The Roseau 'rune' stone is a golf ball-sized stone encircled with a ring of markings. The stone was found near Roseau, Minnesota, between 1916-1918 and was thought by some to contain Viking runic ...

The runes represent the word “hirila,” interpreted to mean “Little Sword” in Old Norse. While it remains uncertain whether “hirila” refers to the knife itself or its owner ...