Finally, a game piece with runes was found a couple of years ago in Trondheim. "I haven't seen it myself, but from the photos ...

Runes are the oldest known Scandinavian alphabet system ... One of the rare examples of larger pieces of runic inscriptions can be found on the famous runestones in the town of Jelling that ...

Runes are the oldest form of writing in Norway ... Only 30 runestones have been found before around AD 500. This newly-uncovered runestone, called Svingerudsteinen after the Svingerud site ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have found a 2000-year-old knife believed to be inscribed with the oldest runes ever discovered in the country. The runic inscription, carved in the alphabet of Denmark ...

Norwegian archaeologists believe they have found the world's oldest ... especially during the Viking era, runes are stones inscribed with runic letters, the oldest alphabet known in Scandinavia.