A runestone is a large stone carved with runic inscriptions — usually in the early Germanic alphabet known as the futhark.

“Basically the text would be saying, I, the rune inscriber’s name, wrote the runic inscription,” one of the study’s ...

Learn your F-U-TH's The runic alphabet, or Futhark, gets its name from its first six sounds (f, u, th, a, r, k), much like the word 'alphabet' derives from the first two letters of the Greek ...

The original position of an adjacent smaller runic stone is not known. However, the stone has been in its present location since about 1630. Its inscription reads "King Gorm made this monument to his ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...