and new analysis of the carvings suggests that the runes on both sets of stones were inscribed by the same artisan and refer to the same woman: a Viking queen of considerable power. Researchers ...

The Svingerud Stone is also remarkable for its face, which bears scribblings—grid patterns ... preserved rune stones.” While Scandinavia has turned up thousands of slabs with Viking Age ...

This in itself was not unusual; thousands of stones with runic inscriptions, dating to the Viking period ... is also etched with lines in a grid pattern and “small zigzag figures.” ...

The Ravnunge-Tue stone that mentions Thyra (the Læborg Stone) reads: “Ravnunge-Tue carved these runes in memory of Thyra, his queen.” But according to the Viking Ship Museum, the term ...

An analysis of Viking rune stones in Denmark revealed the power of a Viking queen, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Antiquity Hundreds of Viking monuments dot Denmark’s coastal ...

The pieces dated to around 900 A.D. or the Viking Age. The hoard “was buried ... three of them are inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes with Old English name elements, officials said.

The language of the runes remains in question too. "The inscriptions are not a Viking script, but a combination of [runic languages] Elder Futhark and Younger Futhark, which predates when the ...

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 ...