"Kiss me," reads this message, written in cipher runes on a piece of bone found in Sigtuna. Photo: Jonas Nordby More than 900 years ago, Vikings used coded runes to send frivolous romantic messages to ...

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Across Sweden, ancient rune stones stand quietly in fields, near churches, and along roads. Many people pass them without a second thought. Yet these stones hold voices from more than 1,000 years ago.

People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems, each ...

Across Sweden, ancient rune stones stand quietly in fields, near churches, and along roads. Many people pass them without a second thought. Yet these stones hold voices from more than 1,000 years ago.