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Norway’s kit revives 1,500-year-old Norse script in FIFA World Cup. It’s a cultural identity

For their 2026 FIFA World Cup kit, Norway have teamed up with Nike to create a custom typeface inspired by the Elder ...

Inside the colorful, compelling and controversial jersey designs at the World Cup

There will be blood, sweat and tears on players’ soccer jerseys at the World Cup — and plenty of deeper cultural and ...
The Guardian

Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

Markets take note as world’s biggest equity fundraiser bids to garner more money than three biggest-ever IPOs combined Kenneth Rogoff: will AI create a permanent underclass? Google’s parent company, ...
ancient-origins

Nordic runes

Jötunvillur is a little-known runic code. Only nine known examples of Jötunvillur inscriptions have been found in northern Europe, making it extremely difficult to crack. When a runes expert managed ...
Greek Reporter

Archaeologists Discover World’s Oldest Known Rune Stone

Fragments of the oldest rune stone discovered in Norway’s Svingerud burial field. Credit: Steinar Solheim et al. / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have uncovered fragments of what may be the world’s ...
GitHub

Transform latin letters to runes & vice versa. TypeScript version.

You can either transform runes to text, or text to runes. All modules contain their own lettersToRunes and runesToLetters methods. The Elder Futhark, also known as the Older Futhark, is the oldest ...
GitHub

Transform latin letters to Younger Futhark runes & vice versa

This library has been discontinued in favor of Riimut. It contains same functionality for all main runic dialects. This library will also remain available in NPM and should keep working just fine. The ...
Popular Science

Even Vikings had to pay fines

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Artnet

A 2,000-Year-Old Rune-Inscribed Knife Sheds Light on Denmark’s Past

Archaeologists from the Museum Odense in Denmark recently unearthed a significant historical artifact: a small, 2,000-year-old knife bearing an exceptionally rare runic inscription. The text, composed ...
IFLScience

How The Supposedly Ancient Kensington Runestone Became Inscribed With 19th-Century Runes

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
The Debrief

These Enigmatic Viking Symbols, Used in Ancient Encrypted Messages, Keep One of History’s Strangest Language Secrets

The ancient runic alphabet, used by Germanic peoples centuries ago prior to the adoption of the Latin alphabet, remains one of the most enigmatic early writing systems. Chief among its mysteries is ...