2,000-Year-Old Runestone Fragment Found in Norway
Researchers in Norway have found a 2,000-year-old runestone fragment with an inscription that may have been signed by a woman, potentially making it the oldest known record of a female rune-inscriber. The inscription suggests that the writer claimed to have written the runic script. The discovery sheds light on the evolution of the Germanic alphabetic script and the use of runestones in Scandinavia.