I shall copy these, and then write my name in runes inside all my books.
I find I can't tear myself away from it, and I want to keep going back to read the runes again, and to see that it is safe and uninjured.
There are four views altogether, as you will see; but I think you will like this the best, for it shows the runesso plainly.
And he came and went unweary, And read the books of yore, And the runes that were written of old On stones upon the moor.
On several of the pillars inside the church are writings in runes ("runeskrift").
It was nothing more heroic than the ability to read runes which, in five days, got you more favor than Rolf Erlingsson's strength had gained him in five years.
Go dress yourself, then bring hither the runes you were reading to Rolf Erlingsson.
Then dipping his brush in the purple wine, he began to paint strange-looking runes on the fair new boards before him.
Soon after this interview the aged king feels death approaching; and in order not to go to the dark abode of Hela, he cuts death-runes upon his breast and ascends to Odin's bright hall.
Runes of our past with their warning Carved on its shaft, Show us the spring you have quaffed, Leading our land to the light of the morning.
Runes in the woodlands, as it were written records of the labors of past generations.
Used by him alone Who love forswore Could the runes of the ring Bring doom To the mighty gods, And shame without end.
Rumours I have heard Of the Rhinegold; Runes of riches Hide in its ruddy glow; Pelf and power Are by the ring bestowed.
What thy spear wards Are they but sport, All the runes of solemn bargain?
There was no speck of dust on the broad blade as I drew it, and the waving lines of the dwarf-wrought steel and gold-inlaid runes were clear and bright along its middle for half its length.
I set up a stone over the grave of my mother, graving runes thereon that should tell who she was and also who raised it; for I was skilled in the runic lore, having learned much from one of Einar's older men who had known my father.
Maybe it would be better for him to grave them, for runes wrongly written are worse than none, and these are very powerful.
Harek the scald looked at it once, and then went to its heavy folds, and scanned carefully the runes that were thereon.
But there was never any talk of the runes I had offered.
Writing by Runeshas some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a Phoenician Alphabet, but a native Scandinavian one.
Runes are the Scandinavian Alphabet; suppose Odin to have been the inventor of Letters, as well as "magic," among that people!
What this Odin saw into, and taught with his runes and his rhymes, the whole Teutonic People laid to heart and carried forward.
While Ran afar is storming, he Basks in the sun at home; his soul It joys with diamond-pointed pole To trace runes on the placid sea.
There, in her castle Helheim, she receives the ghosts of the worthless and cowardly, and of those who die of old age or sickness, who omit to cut runes to Odin.
But thou shalt stand by my side while I invoke the phantom, and hear and interpret the words which rush from my lips, and the runes that take meaning from the sparks of the charmed fire.
But ere the sun had dispelled the dews on the forest sward, Hilda had recovered her wonted calm, and, locked within her own secret chamber, prepared the seid and the runes for the invocation of the dead.
What knowest thou of the runes of old, whispered by the trunkless skull to the mighty Odin?
She is learned in all the old runes that are written on the rocks and on the tombs, and she talketh with the gods in their places.
Upon this she drew runes with the point of the staff that was in her hand, all the while chanting a saga which none of those who heard her could understand, except that they knew in it the names of the gods.
She had her staff in her hand and she was again tracing runes upon the sand.
At other times she was shut up much in her own room, and it was said that she pored long and thoughtfully over polished sheepskins and fragments of gray stone whereon were graven runes that none else might read.
These are like the runes upon the old Odin stone beyond the fiord, and they were made when he came from the East.
But therunes were close to the water's edge and the tide was coming in.
Upon this surface were many runes graven, in lines and columns, and some of them were like small pictures, and more were like letters of words that were to be read.
The runes on the rock beside it were graven by herself for the memory of Brander the Brave, for she loved him well.
Back fled the billow, breaking as it went, but it left behind it no trace of those strange runeson the sand.
Who knew, therefore, but what the runeshad been written in the city of Asgard by the hands of the Asas?
These are but as the runes that she showed me upon the sandy beach of the North coast before I sailed thence in The Sword.
She said that ye have good sagas of your own and that your runes are ancient.
She is both wise and crafty, being a saga woman, and there are runes concerning her.
One of them," said Ulric, "is like the runes that Hilda showed me in the sand by the sea, but it is alone.
He points out, virulently, the strength of his own position compared with Wotan's, in whose hand that spear of his must fly to pieces should he break a covenant established as sacred by the runes carved on its shaft.
Of the World-Ash they tell, in whose shade a well flowed, murmuring runes of wisdom; of a daring god who came to drink at the well, paying in toll one of his eyes.
This he carved with runes of truth to compacts, and held it as the "haft of the world.
He craved back his liberty, and, as the Norn tells us later in Goetterdaemmerung, "tried to free himself by gnawing at the runes on the shaft of the spear.
There drift back to Wotan's memory runes of the Ring, and the thought readily arises that it would be well he possessed the ring himself.
Who is it that weeps for the last year's flowers When the wood is aflame with the fires of spring, And we hear her voice in the lilac bowers As she croons the runes of the blossoming?
It stirred the scalds to runes but not to inspiration.
There is another rapprochement in Babylonian lore and a third in the Eddas, where it is related that to Sigurd the secret of the runes was sung.
Who but a man who could readRunes on a teapot, would have received an unfortunate wayfarer as you have received me?
The sharp, angular form of the runes proves that they were incised on wood, stone, or some such rigid material, and these characters persist in the few manuscripts which have been found.
Canon Taylor sees in the ogams an adaptation of the runes to the needs of the engraver, "notches cut with a knife on the edge of a squared staff being substituted for the ordinary runes.
But here Sorcha had interposed, and said that Oona had picked it up in some way--in one of the old runes told her by Murdo, no doubt.
But now, before I send you my last word of greeting, let me add (rather for other readers than for you, who already know of them) a word concerning the Gaelic runes interpolated in Pharais.
They are the ancient runesof victory of our people.
Then I showed men how to read the mystic runes aright, and how to make the sweet beverage of poetry, that charms all hearts, and enlightens the world.
And Mimer looked long at the ruddy hilts of the weapon, and at the mystic runes that were scored upon its sides, and at the keen edge, which gleamed like a ray of sunlight in the gathering gloom of the evening.
Even should I tell the monks I had found it, or bought it from sailors--they would not have left it with me, for strong heathen victory runes were engraved on the haft.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
