Odin himself says in his famous Rune-song in the Elder Edda: I know that I hung / On a wind-rocked tree.
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Odin himself says in his famous Rune-song in the Elder Edda: I know that I hung / On a wind-rocked tree.
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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.
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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.
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Into this the four plunged, weaving with their runesongs fresh and original psychic patterns which had the effect of healing wounds.
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