Wherever they went, Vikings turned to runes to express both ... who owned Gusnava after his death. Although most runestones honor men, some commemorated Viking women. One runestone found in ...

The 700-plus runes (early Germanic symbols) covering all five of the stone’s sides were previously believed to have been ...

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping to reveal more about a place and time nearly lost to history. “The hoard has a ripple ...