The runologist couldn't figure out what the final rune was meant to symbolize.
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Rune
/ɹuːn/
Synonyms for "rune" (79 found)
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gramaryegrammaloguehieratic symbolhieroglyphhieroglyphichieroglyphicshiraganahoodooideogramideographincantationjujujujuismkanakatakanalogogramlogographmagicnatural magicnecromancy
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oghamphoneticphonetic symbolpictogrampictographpoempoesypoetryradicalrhymeshamanismshorthandsorcerysortilegespellspellbindingspellcastingsympathetic magicthaumaturgiathaumaturgics
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6 entriesfuthark runemagical runerune alphabetrune carvingrune inscriptionrune stone
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9 total sentences available.
Yet they made for man those mystic swords of superhuman workmanship engraved with magic runes and dipped when red hot in blood or in a broth of poisonous herbs and twigs.
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Runes were the letters of an ancient Germanic alphabet, ultimately derived from the Mediterranean alphabets, which was used for carving on wood or stone and which to some extent survived the introduction of writing.
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And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.
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