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

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Runes are the letters of an alphabetic script used to write Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet. Their origin is debated but the oldest of the runic alphabets was in use ...

Another folly arrives at the end of the letter where Lorange left a message in runes, an alphabet used by Germanic before the adoption of the alphabet.

Researchers eventually realized Lorange didn’t know runes and had simply written the Norwegian phrase “Emma Gade my girlfriend” in a runic alphabet, Ramstad said. The two later married.

Latin letters were replacing the ancient runes, dialects were changing rapidly. These language changes, he decided, might account for the peculiarities of the Kensington Stone.

[Related: .] The inscription on the ring contains almost 250 runes, or letters in the alphabet used by the Vikings and other Germanic peoples.