Runic inscriptions

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Anglo-Saxon carved chest

church in Poland, Poland

runic inscriptions that are left in Hagia Sophia

database of runic inscriptions (1987-)

church building in Ål, Buskerud, Norway

Christian cross in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK

12th-century crucifix carved in walrus tusk

10th century Anglo-Saxon seax

inscription discovered on the scabbard of a 5th-century sword

viking sword

Celtic brooch found in North Ayrshire, Scotland

__NOTOC__ thumb|Runamo thumb|Some of the "runes" at Runamo upright=1.3|thumb|Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae's illustration of a part of the "inscription"Runamo is a cracked dolerite dike in Sweden that was for centuries held to be a runic inscription and gave rise to a famous scholarly controversy in the 19th century. It is located 2.7 km from the church of Bräkne-Hoby in Blekinge, in South-Sweden. For hundreds of years people said it was possible to read an inscription, and learned men referred to it.

Skull fragment inscribed with runes

runic inscriptions in Bergen, Norway