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 uncovered ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Paying a fine in Viking-age Sweden could cost you an ox. Or, if you prefer, it’s equivalent in silver. A new analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden is ...

(photo credit: National Museums Scotland is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0) Researchers recently deciphered runic inscriptions on a 1,100-year-old silver arm ring from the Galloway Hoard in Scotland ...

Runic inscriptions on an 1,100-year-old arm ring unearthed in Scotland suggest that the hoard of silver and gold it was buried with belonged to an entire Viking community. The Galloway Hoard ...

The inscription on this replica ring is written in the Runic alphabet, used by the Anglo-Saxons who lived in Britain between about AD 500 and 1100. The Runic alphabet was used for hundreds of ...

leaving runic inscriptions in places as distant as Greenland. Wherever they went, Vikings turned to runes to express both the poetic ("Listen, ring-bearers, while I speak/Of the glories in war of ...

Now, scientists in Norway are working to reassemble the ancient puzzle, a process that’s starting to shed light on who carved the mysterious runic writing and what the words mean. Runes were 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 ...