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 ...
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 ...
Viking-era rune stones, swords, keys, and jewelry; religious objects from the seventeenth century; and examples of twentieth-century modern design. The special exhibition "Across the West and ...
From exploring the royal mounds and rune stones of the Viking Age to discovering one of Scandinavia’s most notable cathedrals, Uppsala is a great day out from Stockholm for anyone with an ...
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 ...
Well, archaeologists working with Denmark’s Museum Odense found more than 50 viking graves ... be mentioned in the runes. But as Gizmodo pointed out at the time, the stones were raised by ...