runic

Examples of rune

rune
Thirdly is the corresponding hypothesis that the rune-like letters are imagined to be carved into the mast.
A quasi-pagan element is introduced that is in keeping with the magical qualities popularly associated with runes.
After all, there is more than one way to mislead a reader, and a deliberately misdrawn rune is one of them.
Most significantly, the characters appear to be runes.
This is but one more error that, like the theory involving the rune, seems to put us back into the nineteenth century.
Certainly the physical presence of the runes, that arcane script, implies that the two lovers share secrets that no one else can or should know.
To follow this line of thought, we are equally free to imagine that the woman could recognize the runes because she has seen them before.
There is no real code to crack here; there are no deep mysteries hidden in the runes.
The speaker is neither a living person nor a personified rune-stick.
The isolated runes that are embedded in these poems are there for decorative purposes.
What is always helpful is one's knowledge of the phonetic value of the runes as word-initial elements, together with a degree of ingenuity in solving word-games.
If one accepts this conclusion, as a majority of readers have done, then the rune-stick, personified as a messenger, is attributed human voice through the rhetorical device of prosopopoeia.
Naturally, advocates of the 'human messenger' approach have called attention to problems with the 'speaking rune-stick' approach.
The poem's reference to "runes" marks the setting as northern rather than classical, and the charm might be read as an echo of ancient folk customs.
Knowledge of the conventional rune names is indeed often required, but that knowledge may or may not be helpful at a particular point.
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