More information on the rune stones and other Viking Age artifacts can be discovered at the University’s museum Gustavianum, which is set to reopen after renovations in the summer of 2024.

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 ...

This was useful for helping to decide who could inherit land and wealth. Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial chamber on Orkney by Vikings ...

In 1923, the Smithsonian identified them as the 24-rune FUTHARK, the oldest Viking alphabet, used between 300 and 800 A.D.