Runelore
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The study of runes, typically for magical or religious purposes. uncountable
"In fact so serious a discrepancy could only arise in the infancy of this little-studied Old-Northern Rune-lore, when the material was so comparatively slender and the few monuments gave scarcely any acknowledged formulas."
Example
More examples"In fact so serious a discrepancy could only arise in the infancy of this little-studied Old-Northern Rune-lore, when the material was so comparatively slender and the few monuments gave scarcely any acknowledged formulas."
Etymology
From rune + lore.
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