NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. – Scott Wolter, a Minnesota forensic geologist who examined the Narragansett Rune Stone on Monday, gave a presentation at town hall Tuesday that traced the appearance of the ...
A team of researchers has found fragments of the oldest rune stone in the world in the Svingerud burial field, Norway. These pieces, which have been assembled like a puzzle, offer a unique insight ...
It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than merely ...
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World’s Oldest Runestone May Have Been Carved By A Woman
The earliest runestone ever to be reliably dated has been discovered at a grave field in Norway, providing some fascinating ...
Archaeologists in Hole, Norway, unearthed 12 fragments of a carved standing stone, identified as the world’s oldest rune stone, a study said. Photo from the Museum of Cultural History While ...
Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas County, Minnesota, in the fourteenth century only to be massacred by Native American “skraelings?” This is not the ...
Norway revealed a ‘dream stone of all runologists’ providing clues to origins of Western writing. The stone is named after the excavation site and is now being called the Svingerud Stone. Svingerud ...
(CNN) — The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are ...
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