Two rare artifacts inscribed with ancient letters, or runes, could be the key to a mysterious era of Viking history when they suddenly abandoned their old alphabet and transitioned to a new one.

Although ‘å’ is the youngest member of the Danish alphabet, it has been used in written Danish since the 19th century following discussions during the 18th century about replacing ‘aa’. But the letter ...

Denmark had long used "aa" to represent a Danish vowel sound that's a little ... But even worse, in 1955, Denmark decided that their new letter "Å" would be the last letter of the alphabet, ...