A stone says more than a thousand runes
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 17:41
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It was not necessary to be literate to be able to access rune carvings in the 11th century. At the same time those who could read were able to glean much more information from a rune stone than merely what was written in runes. This is shown in new research from Uppsala University in Sweden.