January
19
/ 2020
Scholars have long been baffled by the coded runic message of the ‘Rök Runestone’ but a new interpretation claims it spells out a chilling Armageddon prophecy. One of the world's most famous Norse runestones is now thought to have been erected by a Viking who seems to have feared the repeat of a previous climate crisis in Scandinavian history. The new findings are published in the science journal Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies by a team of researchers led by Professor Per Holmberg at the University of Gothenburg, who unraveled each of the stone’s ‘nine mysterious riddles.’ The End of The World Is Nigh The mysterious Rök Runestone was carved in the first half of the 9th century, but
