Runelore

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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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