Ten years ago in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, metal detectorists stumbled upon pieces of silver and gold. Researchers ...

A Viking-era hoard was found in Scotland in 2014 and now runes on an armband have been translated for the first time.

Each rune not only represents a phonetic sound but also has its own distinct meaning often connected with Norse mythology (see clickable alphabet at left). Scholars believe that early peoples used ...

A separate sequence has characters that resemble the first three runes of the futhark, the early Germanic alphabetical system that was used to write Proto-Norse (the first three runes correspond to ...