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Norway’s Oldest Dated Runestone? Svingerud Fragments Reveal a 2,000-Year-Old Writing Tradition
Archaeologists from the University of Oslo’s Museum of Cultural History have uncovered inscribed sandstone fragments in the Svingerud burial ground in Hole, Norway, dated to 50 BCE–AD 275 through radiocarbon analysis. The find may represent the earliest securely dated runestone ever discovered, pushing back the origins of Scandinavian writing traditions. A dig that rewrote the…