As well as remembering big battles in their stories, the sagas were used to record family history ... Image caption, Viking runes were scratched on to the walls at the Maeshowe neolithic burial ...

Sweden, renowned for its wealth of Viking rune stones and rock carvings, boasts the world’s largest collection of these historic artifacts. These standing stones, dating back to between the 9th ...

The mysterious Rök stone, one of the world’s most famous runestones, was raised in the ninth Century in Sweden and contains the longest runic inscription ... alludes to a Viking fear very ...

The Kensington Runestone is a big block of greywacke stone inscribed in runes. The Kensington Runestone was supposedly ... Read more about Secrets of the Viking Stone 'It was like a calling': Peter ...