In the Scandinavian mythology, each Rune was originally dedicated to some deity; it also denoted some natural quality or object: their Asiatic origin is now proved beyond doubt.
Hie thee home, and bid thy maidens ply all night at the work; make it potent with rune and with spell, and with gums of the seid.
All foreshown to me hath ever come to pass, but in a sense other than that in which my soul read the rune and the dream, the leaf and the fount, the star and the Scin-laeca.
This last Rune tired me in preliminary excitement and in the strange semi-conscious fever of composition more than anything of the kind since I wrote the first of the three in Pharais one night of storm when I was alone in Phenice Croft.
Later I went alone for an hour or so to revise what had stirred me so unspeakably, namely the third and concluding “Rune of the Sorrow of Women.
Last night I got the rune of the ‘Knitting of the Knots’ and some information about the Dalt and the Cho-Alt about which I was not clear.
I have learned the rune also of the reading of the spirit.
Ther are others yt would lose all they have put in, or make satisfaction for what they have had, that they might departe; but he will not hear them, nor suffer them to goe ashore, least they should rune away.
It is the unfinished Rune of the Blackbirds," says Freydis, in a whisper.
For I had pondered on a rune of roses, Which to her votaries the moon discloses.
For I had pondered on a rune of roses, And knew some secrets which the moon discloses.
So wikednes being here more stopped by strict laws, and the same more nerly looked unto, so as it cannot rune in a comone road of liberty as it would, and is inclined, it searches every wher, and at last breaks out wher it getts vente.
If it was bad to retreat in the dusk from an innocent bush into an unrecognised well, it was worse to meet the ghost with rune or crucifix and find it an assassin.
What is the rune that is said for the throwing into the sea of the sins of the dead?
Having done this, she kneeled and said a rune of the morning, and after that a prayer, and then a prayer for the poor man Neil.
No, no, for sure Maisie Macdonald could tell him the rune that would serve for the easing of this burden.
The poet who sings the Rune Song in the Havamal does it with every combination of mystery, calculated to inspire awe and wonder in the hearer.
Some of their rune songs taught the art of healing; others had power to stop flying spears in battle, and to excite or extinguish hatred and love.
The written alphabet was called Runic, and the letters, Runes, of which the most ancient specimens are the inscriptions on Rune stones, rings, and wooden tablets.
These drops on thy tomb From the fountain I pour; With the rune I invoke thee, With flame I restore.
I have been ill, and Hilda hath tried rune and charm all in vain.
The joy," replied the Witch, "the joy which comes from wisdom and power, higher than you ever won with your spells from the rune or the star.
The ninth rune was the Rune of the Mud and the Dross and the Slime of Evil--that is the Garden of God, wherein He walks with sunlight streaming from the palms of his hands and with stars springing beneath his feet.
The fourth rune was the Rune of the Green Trees and of all things that grow.
The seventh rune was the Rune of Death, from the quenching of a gnat to the fading of the stars.
The eighth rune was the Rune of the Soul that dieth not, and the Spirit that is.
The third runewas the Rune of the Lochs and Rivers and the Rains and the Dews and the many waters.
Afar in an island-sanctuary that I shall not see again, where the wind chants the blind oblivious rune of Time, I have heard the grasses whisper: Time never was, Time is not.
Sure, peace is a good thing; Let us be glad of Peace: We are not men of the Sword, But of the Runeand the Wisdom.
Here will the stars and moon, Silent and far and deep, Old with the mysticrune Of the slow years that creep, Charm him with sleep.
The monument known as the Kensington Rune Stone was found near Kensington, Minnesota, and is fully described in the reports of the Minnesota Historical Society.
It is not positively known that Knutson attempted the rediscovery of Vinland, unless what is known as the Kensington Rune Stone is evidence of it.
They reached camp after dark to find their booths in ashes, and Nils with his men murdered a little way off, as they had come up from the Rune Stone.
For all that is written or said, The Rune Stones hold the secret of the days of Eric the Red!
But not for reading of rune or rede," pleaded the maiden.
No rune shall she read thee, child, though I would that thou wouldst let her.
Of the Troll of the Church they sing the rune By the Northern Sea in the harvest moon; And the fishers of Zealand hear him still Scolding his wife in Ulshoi hill.
This third insult so enraged Odin that he drew his magic rune stick out of his breast, pointed it at Rinda, and uttered such a terrible spell that she fell back into the arms of her attendants rigid and apparently lifeless.
