Early Germanic tribes of northern Europe ... their own explanation for the appearance of the runes. According to legend, Odin, chief of the Norse gods, speared himself to a tree in a self ...

A separate sequence has characters that resemble the first three runes of the futhark, the early Germanic alphabetical system that was used to write Proto-Norse (the first three runes correspond to ...

The runes are an ancient writing system used by Germanic peoples, especially the Vikings, between the 2nd and 15th centuries. These letters are part of the alphabet known as "futhark," named after ...

Estimated to date between 50 BCE and 275 CE, this extraordinary find challenges what we thought we knew about the early Germanic alphabets and their evolution. Rune stones are engraved slabs ...

Archaeologists have pieced together the earliest stone fragments containing inscriptions of Germanic letters, revealing what the Norse language ... The oldest runes were in use until about 700AD.

Loki's first story is an abridged adaptation of the Viking creation myth, focusing on Odin's role in creating the physical settings for the stories which then follow. Loki recalls how Odin first ...