The ordeals used are the duel with runo stalks, or eggs, and the hot water test.
Let them be as active as the waters of Inude (a cataract) or the feathery plumes of the cogon and runo grass.
The people are like unto gold, which tarnishes not, like unto the waters of the river, which never become small, and like unto the dancing plumes of the cogon and runo grass.
The price is divided into ten parts, each part being represented by a runo stick or a notch cut in a stick, or by knots in a string.
Eggs, runo stalks, or spears are used in trials, the accused facing each other and, at the word of the monkalun, hurling their missiles.
The plaintiff or prosecutor seizes the field at spading time by plantingruno stalks, alpud, in it.
When it is so left one and sometimes two runo stalks are set up in the earth on each side of the door leaning against the roof and projecting some 8 feet in the air.
A few people have runo slat mats, some of which roll up, while others are inflexible, and they lie on these over the stone pavement.
The bunch of runo is for a constant reminder to Lumawig to make the young rice stalks grow large.
On the second day the men of ato Sigichan, in which ato Lumawig resided when he lived in Bontoc, prepare a bunch of runo as large around as a man's thigh.
It is said by Igorot that the Sadanga lis-lis is a conflict with runo (or reed) spears, which are warded off with the war shields.
They bound together two small bunches of runo for torches to light up the steep, rough, twisting trail.
Footnote 45: In the Kalevala (Runo 34) an old woman directs Kullervo to the house of his parents.
This stage is also seen in the strange travesty of the Nativity in the last Runo of the Kalevala; and indeed, one of the older writers says that the favourite deities of the Finns in his time were Väinämöinen and the Virgin Mary.
Footnote 44: In the 26th Runoof the Kalevala Lemminkainen creates a flock of birds from a handful of feathers, to appease the fiery eagle who obstructed his way to Pohjola.
In Runo 50 he is described as leaving Finland on account of his authority departing at the coming of Christ; though it is said by an old writer that the favourite deities of the Finns in his time were Väinämöinen and the Virgin Mary.
Footnote 38: In the Kalevala, Runo 15, Lemminkainen's mother collects together the fragments of his body from the River of Death with a long rake.
Footnote 58: This Air-Maiden, who seems to be only a mischievous sprite, must not be confounded with Ilmatar, the creatrix of the world in the first Runo of the Kalevala.
The Kalevipoeg is essentially a pre-Christian poem, and nowhere exhibits the curious mixture of pre-Christian and Christian ideas that we meet with in many parts of the Kalevala, and notably in Runo 50.
Footnote 31: Kullervo in the Kalevala (Runo 30) bursts his swaddling-clothes and smashes his cradle in the same way.
The last Runo contains a strange confused story of the Nativity, and ends with the consequent departure of Väinämöinen from Finland.
The Arguments to each Runoare translated, slightly modified, from those in the original.
Compare the account of the breaking up of the Sampo, and the dispersal of its fragments, in Runo XLIII.
Compare the account of the forging of the Sampo inRuno X.
The story in the present Runo seems to exhibit a veneer of Christianity over Shaman legends.
His horse and sledge seem to have been transformed, like those of Joukahainen in Runo III.
Our way lay through enormous runo grass which closed in over our heads, so that we were marching in a rather low tunnel through the vegetation.
I shall never forget my astonishment when, on climbing up a steep river bank and diving into a tunnel through runo grass, I nearly fell over an old bull.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "runo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
