Runesong

Odin himself says in his famous Rune-song in the Elder Edda: I know that I hung / On a wind-rocked tree.

Ere one verse was done / The deer in the pine wood forgot how to run. / Oh! the strong / Power of rune song! / Chased, they forgot how to run.

The old rune-songs may, however, still be heard on both sides of the border-land in Finnish and in Russian Carelia, as also on the shores of Lake Ladoga, in Ingria, and in the neighbourhood of Kajana in Osterbotten.

Into this the four plunged, weaving with their runesongs fresh and original psychic patterns which had the effect of healing wounds.