As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man carve runes to cast a spell, save first he learns to read them well." While many in the upper classes could read and write runes, the Vikings called in a ...
A newly translated runic inscription has shed “compelling” new light on who might have owned the Galloway Hoard, experts have announced. The Viking Age hoard, which contains more than 5kg of gold, ...
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