“His brother had spent nearly all day and night trying to carve a simple rune into the face of a small amethyst.”

“There are many remarkable correspondences between the Works and Days and the account given in the Finnish rune.”

“There was a Danish king of that name who was famed for his generosity, to whom the rune poem probably refers.”

“The exhibition has a replica of the huge granite runestone on which he made his boast, complete with a brightly painted image of Christ, crucified and serpent-entangled.”

“The same curse and use of the word, rune, also is found on the Stentoften Runestone.”

“The Ockelbo Runestone shows two men engaged in Hnefatafl, and the sagas suggest that money or valuables could have been involved in some dice games.”

“They were the keepers of starcraft, runecraft, lorecraft and wortcraft and they guided many through the darkness of the future and healed bodies and minds.”

“Among the Swedish runestones mentioning expeditions overseas, almost half tell of raids and travels to western Europe.”

“Viking Age inscriptions have also been discovered on the Manx runestones on the Isle of Man.”

“Sometimes, they were raised only as commemoration to great people, a tradition which was continued as the runestones.”

“The runes also show a path of progression from the Elder Futhark, to the Anglo-Saxon runes with some influence from Ogham, to English.”

“There were several different versions of some of the runes, and individual runes might be carved back-to-front or upside down.”

“Two stone pillars held an arched roof up, which itself was engraved with runes and other types of symbols.”