Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...

The Vikings are often portrayed as illiterate ... Rune Masters were also skilled in the art of rune casting, a method of divination. In one common rune-casting technique, the diviner carved ...

Back tattoos are a blank canvas for artists to create stunning and intricate designs that tell a story, evoke emotion, or ...

The Vikings' reputation for bloodlust compared to other medieval fighters may have been exaggerated over the years.

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 ...

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 ...

From exploring the royal mounds and rune stones of the Viking Age to discovering one of ... archaeological and historical objects including art and coins through to the wider history of science.

Holger Rune and Casper Ruud put the “kings” in “Vikings” with a newly-dropped ad promoting their Nordic Battle exhibition series. In a style reminiscent of the cinematic Six Kings Slam ...

They believed that their runic alphabet could be used to ... The practitioners were called Volva. The Vikings believed that ...