The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate ... Rune Masters were also skilled in the art of rune casting, a method of divination. In one common rune-casting technique, the diviner carved ...

This was useful for helping to decide who could inherit land and wealth. Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial chamber on Orkney by Vikings ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re not supposed to be here—they’re supposed to be in Europe. (Old Viking runes have, indeed, been found on many ...

The exhibition “wir blumen – the lightness of the fragile” at the Kunstverein Hannover offers an insight into the private art collections of Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann, whose collection comprises a ...

The National Nordic Museum is an internationally recognized museum and cultural center where people of all backgrounds are welcomed to be inspired by the values, traditions, art, and spirit of the ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered invaluable treasure that was buried by Vikings over 1,000 years ago. The University of Stavanger's Museum of Archaeology announced the discovery in a press ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

The Vikings are conquering new territory once more: in the Danish city of Aarhus, where plans are afoot for a new Viking museum; in Roskilde, Denmark, where construction is to begin on a new ...