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 ...
Historians know a lot about Viking-age Denmark through their use of special rune stones, stones with inscriptions that memorialize or tell stories of Vikings from many years ago. In recent years, ...
Learn your F-U-TH's The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the ... the runes seriously. As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man ...
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 ...
The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...