Runes fell out of widespread use but did not disappear altogether, and in recent times the Vikings' enigmatic alphabet has had a resurgence at the hands of everyone from Nazis to New Agers. Nicole ...

Write Your Name in Runes. By Nicole Sanderson; Posted 04.28.11; NOVA; Runes are the characters of the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples from about the second to the 15th ...

Sweden's 1,200-year-old Rök stone is inscribed with more than 700 runes, some of which may discuss climate change. University of Gothenburg Sometime in the early ninth century, an anxious Viking ...