Runes in Venice

Who would expect to find runes in Venice? After all, the Vikings never did come to Venice, even if they did go a little bit everywhere.

In fact, the closest the Vikings ever got to Venice was southern Italy and the lower Adriatic.

Yet, in central Venice, at the entrance to the Arsenale — the ancient Venetian navy docks — there is a statue of a lion with several runic inscriptions on both shoulders and one of the legs.

The story is two thousand years long, and it starts in Ancient Greece.

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