A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...

The Isle of Man is home to over one hundred Viking Age carved crosses ... Down one side, written in ancient Norse runes, is the inscription 'Thorwald raised this cross'.