Scrutable

Interesting article arguing that I haven't fully read yet, just being on a phone, but ascribing the carving of the runestone to a climate downturn being interpreted as the start of the Fimbulwinter and the war mentioned being Ragnarok

https://www.sciencealert.com/famous-vik ... says-study

One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia,

And back then it was not their fault, it was genuinely freak weather. Now we have no excuse to mythologise on rune stones.