This course spans the entire history of runes and gives an overview of both the secondary literature and the inscriptions themselves. For a relevant point of comparison, the course also includes a ...

The name Bluetooth comes from Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson, a Viking king who ruled ... of Harald Bluetooth’s name. These runes were used in Old Norse inscriptions and appear on historic ...

from Bronze Age tools to Viking daggers to medieval spectacles New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E ...

That’s when archaeologists unearthed a comb from the same time period with a runic inscription meaning “harja.” Archaeologists said the knife was likely a treasured possession to its owner.

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 ...