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A walker has discovered a mysterious stone inscribed with 1200-year-old Viking graffiti which could provide the first tangible evidence that the fearsome Norse raiders gave up raping and pillaging to live alongside native Scots. Experts believe the palm-sized slate unearthed in a rabbit burrow and carved with runes, an alphabetic script used by the peoples of Northern Europe from the first century AD, could be the work of a Viking raider or a first generation Danish settler.

 

full article at The Herald

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