Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...

Archaeologists have discovered some of the earliest-known stone fragments containing Germanic letter inscriptions at a grave ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what ...

A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...

Runology is concerned with some 1300 years of the history of writing. Runes constituted the script used by many Germanic peoples from the second century A.D. Their use died out in Norway around 1400.

The course provides an introduction to runes and runology, with a focus on Swedish conditions. Theories about the origin of runic writing are discussed, and both the oldest runic inscriptions and ...