Many adorn their bodies with tattoos, and some adopt a Viking diet, slaughtering and roasting ... Still standing a thousand years after it was raised, the rune stone at Anundshög in Sweden ...

Each rune not only represents a phonetic sound but also has its own distinct meaning often connected with Norse mythology (see clickable alphabet at left). Scholars believe that early peoples used ...

Consider this, dear reader, would you ever get a tattoo? No? Quite sensible ... delicate script written indelibly up their arm or Norse runes snaking their way up their calf?

In a country with nearly as many sheep as people, a D.I.Y. wool journey — from sheep farms to yarn shops — makes perfect ...

Viking jewelry captivates fans worldwide with its creativity, history, and cultural significance. This remarkable jewelry from the Viking Age (late 8th to early 11th century) is both ornamental and ...

A mysterious graphic feature runes was shown on "WWE Raw," suggesting the return of a tag team who have been on the shelf for ...

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 ...

I spent my second day in Iceland in a hotel on the outskirts of Reykjavik, trying resolutely to knit. Gathered around a ...

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 ...

Not all the revellers seem family-friendly: there are a few furtive types sporting Norse rune tattoos and “Germany unbent” t-shirts. Others shoo away journalists seeking interviews with a curt ...