Runic inscriptions

Alu (runic) - Alu is a Germanic charm word appearing on numerous Elder Futhark found in Central and Northern Europe dating from between 200 and 800 CE. The word – the most common of the early runic charm ...

Anglo-Saxon runic rings - The most notable of these are the Bramham Moor Ring, found in the 18th century, and the Kingmoor Ring, found 1817, inscribed with a nearly identical magical formula read as :ærkriufltkr...

Arguel inscription - The Arguel inscription is an Elder Futhark inscription, dated to the 5th or 6th century, discovered in 1921 by a student of law, Robert Milliat, next to a source at the foot of a cliff at Argue...

Bergakker inscription - The Bergakker inscription was found in 1996 near the town of Bergakker, near Tiel.

Bewcastle Cross - The Bewcastle Cross is an Anglo-Saxon high cross still in its original position in the churchyard of Bewcastle, near Carlisle, Cumbria, England.

Bryggen inscriptions - The Bryggen inscriptions are a find of some 670 medieval runic inscriptions on wood and bone found from 1955 and forth at Bryggen in Bergen, Norway.

Bülach fibula - The Bülach fibula is a silver disk-type fibula with almandine inlay found in Bülach, Canton Zürich in 1927.

Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus - The Caistor-by-Norwich astralagus is a roe deer astragalus found in Norfolk, bearing a 5th c. Elder Futhark inscription, reading Caistor-by-Norwich astragalus "roe".

Charnay Fibula - The Charnay Fibula is a mid 6th century fibula or brooch which was discovered in Burgundy in 1857.

Elder Futhark inscriptions - Elder Futhark inscriptions were rare, with very few active literati, in relation to the total population, at any time, so that knowledge of the runes was probably an actual "secret" throughout t...

Erilaz - Erilaz is a Migration period Proto-Norse word attested on various Elder Futhark inscriptions, which has often been interpreted to mean "magician" or "rune master", viz.

Franks Casket - The Franks Casket is a small Anglo-Saxon whalebone chest from the eighth century, now in the British Museum.

Frei-Laubersheim fibula - The Frei-Laubersheim fibula is a silver-gilt bow-style fibula found in Frei-Laubersheim, Bad Kreuznach in 1872.

Golden Horns of Gallehus - The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of sheet gold, discovered in Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder in South Jutland, Denmark.

Grumpan bracteate - The Grumpan bracteate, designated as runic inscription Vg 207 by Rundata, is a gold C-bracteate found in Västergötland, Sweden in 1911.

Kleines Schulerloch inscription - The runic inscription found in the Kleines Schulerloch cave, Altmühltal, near Essing, Bavaria was discovered in 1937.

Kragehul I - Kragehul I is a migration period lance-shaft found in Fyn, Denmark.

Kvinneby amulet - The Kvinneby amulet is an 11th century runic amulet which was found in the mid-1950's in the soil of the village Södra Kvinneby in Öland, Sweden.

Lindholm amulet - The Lindholm "amulet", listed as DR 261 in Rundata, is a bone piece found in Skåne, Sweden, that is dated to the 2nd to 4th centuries and has a runic inscription.

Maeshowe - Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.

Nordendorf fibula - The Nordendorf fibulae are two early 7th century Alammanic fibula found in Nordendorf near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.

Ring of Pietroassa - The Ring of Pietroassa is a gold Torc-like necklace found in a ring barrow in Pietroassa, Buzău County, southern Romania, in 1837.

Runamo - Runamo is a cracked dolerite dike that was for centuries held to be a runic inscription and gave rise to a famous scholarly controversy in the 19th century.

Rundata - The Scandinavian Runic-text Data Base is a project started on January 1, 1993 at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

Runic inscription N 351 - N 351 is the Rundata catalog number for a medieval runic inscription carved on a piece of wood that was found at the north portal of the Borgund stave church in Norway.

Runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia - There are at least two runic inscriptions in Hagia Sophia's marble parapets.

Seax of Beagnoth - The Seax of Beagnoth is an iron Anglo-Saxon seax dating from the 9th century.

Seeland-II-C - Seeland-II-C is a Scandinavian bracteate from Zealand, Denmark dating to the Migration period.

Setre Comb - The Setre Comb is a comb which has been dated from the 650 to 700 C.E. that has been the subject of an amount of Runological study due to its runic inscription.

Sigtuna box - The Sigtuna box is a copper box from Sigtuna, Sweden, which was engraved with a runic inscription in the early 11th century.

St Cuthbert's coffin - St. Cuthbert's coffin is a wooden coffin opened during the Reformation in Durham Cathedral, dated to AD 698, the year of the death of Saint Cuthbert.

Thorsberg chape - The Thorsberg chape, that was found in the Thorsberg moor, Germany, as an apparent votive offering.

Tjurkö bracteates - The Tjurkö Bracteates, listed by Rundata as DR BR75 and DR BR76, are two bracteates found on Tjurkö, Eastern Hundred, Blekinge, Sweden, bearing Elder Futhark runic inscriptions, in Proto-Norse.

Undley bracteate - The Undley bracteate, a 5th century bracteate found in Undley Common, near Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Vadstena bracteate - The Vadstena bracteate is a gold C-bracteate found in the earth at Vadstena, Sweden, in 1774.

Vimose inscriptions - Finds from Vimose, Funen, Denmark, include some of the very oldest datable Elder Futhark runic inscriptions in late Proto-Germanic or early Proto-Norse from the second to third centuries A.D.

Westeremden yew-stick - The Westeremden yew-stick is a yew-wood stick found in Westeremden B in the Groningen province of the Netherlands in 1917 that bears an Old Frisian Futhorc inscription.