The blade bears an inscription in runic script, and remnants of its leather ... A prominent feature is a ring attached to its pommel, possibly symbolizing an oath sworn to a king or another ...

The Forsa Ring is an iron ring from Hälsingland, dated to the 9th or 10th century. The runic inscription on the ring describes fines for a specific offense, where payment was to be made in the form of ...

The Forsa Ring is an iron ring from Hälsingland, dated to the 9th or 10th century. The runic inscription on the ring describes fines for a specific offense, where payment was to be made in the ...

Researchers had long struggled to make sense of the runic inscription carved inside the curved half of the arm ring, which read “DIS IS IIGNA F”. They made a breakthrough when they realised th ...

Runic inscription on arm ring from Galloway Hoard (National Museums Scotland) Researchers analysed runic words inscribed on the curved half of the arm ring. They found that one of the words could ...

The breakthrough came when researchers realised the runic inscription carved inside the curved half of the arm ring, reading DIS IS IIGNA F, might be “technically ‘wrong'”. The main issue ...

Archeologists in Norway have discovered the world’s oldest dated runestone, featuring runic inscriptions from up to 2,000 years ago. Researchers at the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural ...

The inscription begins with the word “I” in runic script, followed by the name of the writer and a verb that indicates writing, before ending with the word “rune,” researchers wrote ...