The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate, uncultured barbarians who evinced more interest in plunder than in poetry. In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone ...
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Archaeologists Reveal the Oldest Known “Rune Stone” in the World—Centuries Older Than the VikingsA Silent Witness to Ancient Words Rune stones are engraved slabs bearing inscriptions in the runic alphabet, used by Germanic and Scandinavian peoples before the adoption of the Latin script. Most ...
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World’s Oldest Runestone May Have Been Carved By A WomanRunes represent an early Germanic writing system that was used before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, and was prevalent ...
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