Learn about the Svingerud Stone, a runestone found in a Norwegian grave site that currently stands as the earliest written ...

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Archaeologists have made pre-Viking Norse language discovery atgrave site containing pieces of stone inscribed with Germanic ...

The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating ...

Researchers discovered that Norway's Viking societies were more violent than Denmark's, with higher rates of weapon use and fatal injuries.

Critics are not merciful towards the theory that Denmark's national icon, the large Jelling stone, is not from the Viking Age ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language was like before the Viking era. Researchers from the ...