Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

Archaeologists have made pre-Viking Norse language discovery atgrave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with Germanic ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

Whenever I think of Vikings, I must admit, I picture big, burly men with long beards and cool battle armor. But did you know ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions on the stones were determined to be the earliest known form of runic writing ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone, found at Svingerud, Norway, fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, suggesting intentional separation. These ...

"The development of runic writing and the practice of inscribing runes on stone are difficult to trace," study co-author Kristel Zilmer, a professor of runology at the University of Oslo ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone discovered in Norway’s Svingerud burial field. Credit: Steinar Solheim et al. / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered fragments of what may be the world’s ...

Fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world were found in an ancient Norwegian burial ground Inscriptions on the stones were determined to be the earliest known form of runic writing, which could ...