In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood and metal, all written in the enigmatic symbols known as runes. They relied on these symbols not only for writing but ...

After more than 1,000 years, researchers believe they've finally decoded the mystery of the world's longest runestone, a Viking slab that describes the apocalypse.

When the Vikings did write things down, they used a completely different type of writing to us called runes. Rather than letters of the alphabet, runes used symbols. There were at least three ...

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 ...

It’s believed Germanic people drew inspiration from the Roman alphabet to create ... are from the age of the Vikings, about AD 800 to 1050, and few examples of early runes exist.