When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

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 alphabet, alpha and beta ...

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

Given that the Lany bone fragment contains six of the last letters of this script, Nedoma believes the original artifact may have comprised the entire alphabet at one point and could have been ...

It contains the first three letters of the runic alphabet – “f,” “u” and “th” – on one of its sides, according to the museum. The stone features "unexpected" inscriptions.

Discover the curious history behind this wacky and wonderful letter of the alphabet. Here's the real reason "W" is called "double U." ...

Another holdover from the Futhorc runic alphabet, wynn was adapted to the Latin alphabet because there wasn't a letter that quite fit the "w" sound that was common in English.

People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems ...

Archaeologists in Denmark have discovered runic letters inscribed on a knife blade dating back nearly 2,000 years, making them some of the oldest runes ever found in the country.