These rune meanings offer a fascinating glimpse into ancient symbolism and Norse mythology. These aren’t just simple written ...

The symbols can be traced back to Futhark, the oldest known runic alphabet. Archaeologists remain baffled by a surprising, seemingly ahistorical find located deep in the Canadian wilderness. But after ...

Archeologists have found what they think is the oldest example of runes. The writing, which is about 2,000 years old, was found in Norway. Scandinavians likely developed Runic writing after first ...

People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems, each ...

Both the Celtic Ogham and the Germanic Futhark have unique sequences for which no interpretation has yet been found. The composition of the Ogham and the Futhark is mostly explained by complicated ...

I don’t know whether the TV series Vikings has changed public perception of that warlike, exploratory people — I didn’t watch beyond season two, the violence having declined in favour of character ...