Naturally, the runes have intrigued God of War fans, who over the past few months have taken on the Herculean task of translating every last inscription. Using a combination of Old Norse and ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Norse runes found on a rock near Kensington, Minn., apparently were the work of University of Minnesota graduate students, not Norse explorers in 1363. Two of the ...

Created by the makeup artist, Lena Zieba, the actor reveals that the tattoos are "Icelandic runes" and contain every crew ...

Norse imagery, and Norse runes in particular, have been appropriated by fascists and white supremacists, but Norse mythology and culture don’t inherently carry any of those values. Of course ...

Each rune not only represents a phonetic sound but also has its own distinct meaning often connected with Norse mythology. Scholars believe that early Germanic and Scandinavian peoples used the ...

The Swedish government is looking into the possibility of forbidding the use of Norse runes, local media has reported, amid concerns that the ancient symbols have been misappropriated by neo-Nazi ...

The surface of the boulder is marked, it has been claimed, with ancient Norse letters or "runes." Stories of bold, blonde, blue-eyed Vikings were hugely popular in New England in the 1800s.