The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found.Now, scientists in Norway are ...

Most rune-stones are Viking Age memorials, erected in memory of someone and inscribed with formulaic phrases. The Hole rune-stone is different. It’s older, and it “speaks” in an unclear ...

When the researchers compared runes from Jelling 2 (the larger of the two Jelling stones) and the Læborg stone from the Bække-Læborg group, they found striking similarities, such as height of ...

When the researchers compared runes from Jelling 2 (the larger of the two Jelling stones) and the Læborg stone from the Bække-Læborg group, they found striking similarities, such as height of ...

But in addition to emphasizing the power Thyra wielded in 10th-century Denmark, the new research also suggests that Ravnunge-Tue incised the runes in both sets of stones. The study is published ...

Strange carvings at Norwegian grave site reveal what language was like before Vikings. Stone fragments inscribed with runes found in separate graves ‘fit together like jigsaw puzzle’ ...

New research not only reveals who carved the runes into the Jelling stone, but also hints at how important someone else was. Image credit: Bjørn Giesenbauer via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) ...

Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

Two groups of runestones erected in Denmark mention a woman named Thyra, which suggests she was a powerful Viking sovereign who likely played a pivotal role in the birth of the Danish realm.