The researchers can’t trace an exact meaning, so they believe it was the name of a person, perhaps a woman. The clearest inscription is on the Hole 3 stone, and appears to be the rune inscriber ...

“[They] will necessitate new assessments of other early rune-stones and their relative chronologies in future research.” Someday, the meanings of these mysterious epigraphs may finally be set ...

Now, researchers have traced a path back in time to the world’s oldest recorded rune stone — and it’s full of secrets. Archaeologists unearthed a large, carved stone in an ancient cremation ...