In fact, the Vikings left behind a great number of documents in stone, wood and metal, all written in the enigmatic symbols known as runes. They relied on these symbols not only for writing but ...

The Vikings had a writing system. "During most of the Viking Age, writing in Scandinavia consisted mainly of simple, short inscriptions [called runes] on stone, bone, or wood," Nordeide and ...

What’s left is one of the biggest questions in Norse history: why did the Vikings abandon Greenland? Researchers writing today in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences ...