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 ...

Its cryptic inscriptions could rewrite the early history of runic writing in Scandinavia.

When they discovered the final rune, F, was marked with punts or dots ... touring exhibition titled Treasures of The Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard, which opens on Saturday.

The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 5kg of ... based on four arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes. Three of ...

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'.