Drive north of the Swedish capital for about half an hour and you’ll reach the lakeside district of Vallentuna, a pleasant community with cobblestone churches, picnic areas and playgrounds. It’s also ...

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Archaeologists have used 3D scanning to investigate inscriptions carved on two groups of Danish runestones, revealing that four stones were likely made in dedication to a powerful Viking Queen. The ...

Rök runestone, one of the world's most famous, is believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia. With hit TV shows and recent ...

The meaning of enigmatic inscriptions on a 9th-century Viking runestone in Rök, Sweden, have long baffled scholars. But a new study suggests—eerily—that the five-ton granite slab’s riddles actually ...

Archaeologists scrutinizing two groups of runestones from Denmark have determined the name ‘Thyra’ mentioned in the two inscriptions refers to the same woman: Queen Thyra, wife of Gorm the Old, and ...

Sweden's 1,200-year-old Rök stone is inscribed with more than 700 runes, some of which may discuss climate change. University of Gothenburg Sometime in the early ninth century, an anxious Viking ...

Several passages on the Rök stone -- the world's most famous Viking Age runic monument -- suggest that the inscription is about battles and for over a hundred years, researchers have been trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 1,000 years ago, carvers in what is now Denmark set their chisels to rock to etch runestones — monuments to Viking ...