Numerous stones carved with runes found across Scandinavia bear fascinating messages, such as one about a powerful Viking queen or a warning for frigid climate change based on past events.

mentioning a powerful Viking queen and even warning of a frigid climate crisis based on past events. Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone ...

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 ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

Viking warriors harnessed the arcane powers of the runes even in war ... they erected this stone in memory of Tumi, their brother who owned Gusnava [a Swedish village]." Kaufi and Autir erected ...

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 ...