"Kiss me," reads this message, written in cipher runes on a piece of bone found in Sigtuna. Photo: Jonas Nordby More than 900 years ago, Vikings used coded runes to send frivolous romantic messages to ...

People living in Scandinavia may have written encrypted messages in runes – the alphabet later used by the Vikings – several centuries earlier than previously thought. In runic writing systems, each ...

Researchers have cracked a runic code that has baffled scientists for years—in a development that may help them decode much of the Vikings’ other secret messages. Science Nordic reported runologist K.