Sublime

In the modern Nordic languages, vikingar or vikinger is still used only in the exact sense of seaborne raiders,

The argument for runes as an elite privilege received a decisive blow in the mid-twentieth century with discoveries in the Norwegian harbour towns of Bergen and Trondheim. Hundreds of small wooden slips, inscribed with runes, were found preserved intact in the medieval waterlogged deposits of the dockside streets. They had served a fascinating vari