Meet the Rune Master Those who used them for magic took the supernatural powers of the runes seriously. As one Viking poet put it, "Let no man carve runes to cast a spell, save first he learns to ...

A diagram shows the ancient rune stone puzzle, which has an “unusual mixture of runes and other markings.” The complete rune stone dated between 50 B.C. and 275 A.D., making it “the earliest ...