The article appears as “Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia’s earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription.” ...

Wherever they went, Vikings turned to runes to express both the poetic ("Listen, ring ... divination. Viking warriors harnessed the arcane powers of the runes even in war. Runic inscriptions ...

This is a Jelling stone with runic inscriptions created by King ... pining for dead heroes in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, the Valkyries of the Viking Age are widely believed to have been sorceresses ...

The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...