Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till around the end of the fourteenth century, when the Runic alphabet finally gave way to the modern writing system.
The content of the Inscriptions is very varied, from owner and carpenter attributions on artefacts to memorials to the deceased on erected.
They were not written, but carved - in stone, and on jewellery, weapons, utensils and wood.
Runes, a unique functional writing system, exclusive to northern and eastern Europe, were used for some 1300 years in Scandinavia, from about AD 200 till around the end of the fourteenth century, when the Runic alphabet finally gave way to the modern writing system
