Experts were able to match the runes to a 1767 drawing.
Photo: Lisbeth Imer, National Museum of Denmark
A rune stone likely dating back to around the year 1000 has been discovered in northern Denmark, some 250 years after it was last seen, the National Museum of Denmark said on Thursday.
Researchers had long since given up hope of ever recovering the lost
Viking artefact when a farmer contacted Museum Thy in November to say
that he had a large stone with some stripes on it in his back yard that
he thought experts might want to see.
The museum’s archaeologist Charlotte Boje Andersen and runologist
Lisbeth Imer from the National Museum visited the farmer this week and
were absolutely shocked by what they found.
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