Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...
That Viking queen was Queen Thrya, and her story, which was written on engraved stones, shows that she was a very impressive and honorable woman. Historians know a lot about Viking-age Denmark through ...
The world's oldest runestone may have been found in Norway, dating back more than 2,000 years. It is covered in primitive runic writing, and archaeologists believe it dates back to between AD 1 ...
Runestone is the latest app from Simon Støvring, the developer behind Scriptable, Jayson, and Data Jar. Støvring’s apps tend to be focused on developer or automation use cases, filling holes in the ...
The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...
Normally erected at grave sites, especially during the Viking era, runes are stones inscribed with runic letters, the oldest alphabet known in Scandinavia. The discovery, which could date from the ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Runestone: Pathfinders "Runestone: Pathfinder" is a 3D adventure platformer game set in the world of Runestone. Players will play as a rookie pathfinder ...
The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription in the world; the true meaning of which ...
In the language of the Vikings, Old Norse, rök means “monolith,” and no other runestone stands out from its peers in more ways than Sweden’s Rök. The five-ton stone measures eight feet ...