The runes represent the word “hirila,” interpreted to mean “Little Sword” in Old Norse. While it remains uncertain whether “hirila” refers to the knife itself or its owner ...

Norse literature is dense with references to runes, which may have served as magical ... With a Human Face and Phallus Looking for an Art Excursion in New York This Summer?

Many identified runestones come centuries later in history, during the Viking Age (around the 9th to 11th centuries). The sandstone pieces were primarily dispersed in three graves, designated Hole 1, ...

Known as Runriket, or Rune Kingdom, this collection of more than 100 Viking age runestones – ancient lichen-crusted slabs of Old Norse inscriptions – are beautiful relics that shine a light on ...

Some believe that these cryptic inscriptions are runes (ancient alphabetical characters) carved into the towering stone circa 1000 CE by Norse explorers who travelled up the Arkansas River to this ...

Runes are symbols that early tribes in Northern Europe used to communicate in writing. Odin was one of the main gods in Norse mythology and was frequently associated with war as well as poetry.

Naturally, the runes have intrigued God of War fans, who over the past few months have taken on the Herculean task of translating every last inscription. Using a combination of Old Norse and ...

Snopes also found the rune described as popular with "skinheads" in a 2006 Edmonton Journal article. Modern neo-Nazis routinely use Norse symbols, including the Odal rune. The Anti-Defamation ...

and new analysis of the carvings suggests that the runes on both sets of stones were inscribed by the same artisan and refer to the same woman: a Viking queen of considerable power. Researchers ...

A newly translated runic inscription has shed light on the Galloway Hoard, considered to be one of the richest collections of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland when it was ...

Sweden's 1,200-year-old Rök stone is inscribed with more than 700 runes, some of which may discuss climate change. University of Gothenburg Sometime in the early ninth century, an anxious Viking ...