2,000-Year-Old Knife With Denmark’s Oldest Runes Found On Funen

Snippet: “A 2,000-year-old knife with a runic inscription has been found near Odense on the island of Funen. The five engraved runes on the knife are the oldest ever discovered in Denmark…

“We rarely find runes that are as old as on this knife, and it is a unique opportunity to learn more about Denmark's earliest written language and, thus, also about the language that was actually spoken in the Iron Age.”