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 ...

The runes are an ancient writing system used by Germanic peoples, especially the Vikings, between the 2nd and 15th centuries. These letters are part of the alphabet known as "futhark," named after ...

When Alf Monge, a former U.S. Army Cryptographer who was born in Norway and broke a Japanese code during WWII, looked at the ...

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 ...

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 Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...