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STOCKHOLM One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, according to a new study. The Rok stone, located near Lake Vattern in central Sweden, carr…

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An updated interpretation of the famous Rök runestone suggests Vikings were preoccupied by the threat of a climate calamity. The Rök runestone was completed and upraised in what is now Östergötland, Sweden, around 800 CE, and it was long thought to describe …

Sometime in the early ninth century, an anxious Viking mourning the death of his son began to worry that winter was coming. To cope, he channeled his fears into a wordy essay he then painstakingly chiseled onto the surface of a five-ton slab of granite. This…

Wikimedia CommonsThe Rok runestone’s inscriptions, which contain allusions to catastrophic climate change. The Rok (or Rök) stone, unearthed in the ninth century near Sweden’s Lake Vattern, holds the longest runic inscription in the world. The 700-plus runes…

New Thoughts on Translation of Viking Runestone

New Thoughts on Translation of Viking Runestone

STOCKHOLM – The writing on a famous Viking-era runestone may reflect fears of an approaching climate disaster in ninth century Scandinavia, according to new research by a team of Swedish academics. The Rok stone, located near Lake Vattern in central Sweden, …