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In Scandinavia, Christianity spread due to the support and encouragement of political rulers at the top of the society above all else. Conversion, defined here as the actions taken by kings or clerics to introduce the new religion, did not...

Childhood in the Viking Age (c. 750-1100) was largely undocumented as historical records primarily focus on adults, particularly men. Likewise, little is known about children's presence in the afterlife, as no runestones were raised in their...

Writing in runes isn't a simple one-to-one conversion of one letter to one rune. This video shows how Old Norse was written using the runes of the Younger Futhark, and then looks at examples of real inscriptions from the Viking Age. Contents...

A section of the Stora Hammars I stone in Gotland representing a so-called valknut (the three triangles), alongside a figure with a spear, which might be interpreted as Odin, accompanied by what looks like a raven and a hanging man near a...

Amicia de Rune keeping a sea of rats at bay with a burning stick in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.

Thomas W. Gabrielsson and Rune Temnte as Guthrum and Ubba in the TV series The Last Kingdom, image by the BBC, 2015.

Amicia de Rune standing in front of the ramparts of a Medieval city in the video game A Plague Tale: Innocence.