Rather than letters of the alphabet ... runes were more broadly used – even as graffiti! Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial chamber ...

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland are helping ... and while researchers could have translated the individual letters, they didn’t ...

The ancient runes of an inscribed silver armband found in a buried Viking treasure hoard in Scotland ... could have translated the individual letters, they didn't seem to make sense.