When she first saw the small shining disk soon after it was discovered in the town of Vindelev in 2021, runologist Lisbeth Imer of the National Museum of Denmark had an inkling of what its inscription ...

A gold pendant recently unearthed in Denmark bears the earliest known inscription featuring the Norse god Odin. Archaeologists think the pendant — which is technically known as a bracteate and made of ...

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Archaeologists in Denmark have found a small knife inscribed with runic letters dating back almost 2,000 years, the oldest trace of writing found in the country, the Museum Odense said on Tuesday.