STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Paying a fine in Viking-age Sweden could cost you an ox. Or, if you prefer, it’s equivalent in silver. A new analysis of a thousand-year-old iron ring from Sweden is ...

The Jelling burial mounds and one of the runic stones are striking examples of pagan Nordic culture, while the other runic stone and the church illustrate the Christianization of the Danish people ...

leaving runic inscriptions in places as distant as Greenland. Wherever they went, Vikings turned to runes to express both the poetic ("Listen, ring-bearers, while I speak/Of the glories in war of ...