When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.

Between 500 A.D, and the start of the Viking Age proper in 800 A.D., the elder futhark (alphabet) of 24 runes gradually evolved into a leaner 16-character futhark.

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These runestones, written in the younger futhark alphabet (with only sixteen runes, which evolved in parallel to the Old Norse language), are concentrated mostly in the province of Uppland, although ...

Why Archaeologists Are Excited About a Viking Comb It's a 1,000-year-old comb simply inscribed with the word "comb," but it may hold clues to the origins of the Viking Age.

Plus, the early futhark alphabet does not have the letter C. 'Us could be read as "us" but I thought it might be the west-of-Scotland vernacular "yous", meaning you plural.

The word “futhark” describes an alphabet originally of 24 and later of some 16 angular characters. It is suspected to be derived from both Latin and Greek and was used for inscriptions and ...

This overlooks the fact that the order of characters is the most consistent component in borrowed alphabets. Both the Celtic Ogham and the Germanic Futhark have unique sequences for which no ...

The Vikings left all of these wonderful runestones — they had erected stones with carved letters in the Elder Futhark alphabet, which is the 1000-year-old alphabet from Sweden,” she explained ...