...................................................................... 55 The Runes on Weland’s Sword ...................................................... ...cooled it in the evening dew, and he laid it out in the moonlight and said Runes (that’s charms) over it, and he carved Runes of Prophecy on the blade... ...poiled us of all we had, but when he laid hand on Hugh’s sword and saw the runes on the blade hast- ily he thrust it back. Yet his covetousness overca... ...ll be harmed here aboard. We think ye bring us luck, and I myself know the runes on that Sword are good.” He turned and bade them hoist sail. ‘Hereaft... ... giggled as though it had just seen some joke. 72 Puck of Pook’s Hill The Runes on Weland’s Sword A Smith makes me To betray my Man In my first fight...

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...around the cave mouth with the tip of one of his talons. The most recent runes still shone with gold dust. Others were older, darker; stains crawl... ...rs were all the rest rolled into one. Now only she was there to read the runes, and Mei-chou knew better than anyone what the arch of pitiful dirge... ... that and so much more." Ao Rue softened. "He taught me to read the old runes. He showed me long-forgotten poetry, so exquisite it makes filigree... ...could possibly chase dragons?' That's not too clear. Age has dulled the runes, and Kuan-ti, after a lifetime of study, couldn't decipher all of th... ...n his tail was hardly anything. Painstakingly, Ao Rue drew four lines of runes into the basalt cap. "What does it say?" Feng-po asked as he grate...

... from richly glowing dark wood, furnished the cave. In the shadowed corner, runes carved into the stone floor curved outward, and a char-coated brazi... ...ile of scrolls and books. The books’ covers were cracked and pitted. Ancient runes, parts of them faded into almost non-existence, titled the tomes. M... ... fingers into the still warm blood and marked his face, hands and chest with runes, symbols from days lost in the mists of time. Steeling himself, he ... ...’t be. He dipped a finger again into the blood but, before he could etch the runes once more onto his naked body, they began to burn as if he was bein... ...itches holding the shroud together. With more of the blood, he drew the same runes as were on his body upon the pale naked form. Taking a deep breath,...

... every ancient civilization. Where do evil spells come from? From ancient runes: From the ancient ruins of the undead. From spelling. From sp...

...reidmar; he taught him all manner of arts, the chess play, and the lore of runes, and the talking of many tongues, even as the wont was with kings’ so... ...there be aught of my cunning that will in anywise pleasure thee, either of runes or of other matters that are the root of things; but now let us drink... ...tily, Mingled with fame, Brimming with bright lays And pitiful runes, Wise words, sweet words, Speech of great game. “Runes of... ...’s back, Some on its shining side, Twice name Tyr therein. “Sea-runes good at need, Learnt for ship’s saving, For the good health of... ...Howso blue beneath, Hail from the main then comest thou home. “Word-runes learn well If thou wilt that no man Pay back grief for the gri... ...he Thing, Where folk throng, Unto the full doom faring. “Of ale-runes know the wisdom 73 The V olsunga Saga If thou wilt that another’... ... Never cometh to thee, Mead with hurtful matters mingled. “Help-runes shalt thou gather If skill thou wouldst gain T o loosen child ... ... about; Call for the Good-folks’ gainsome helping. “Learn the bough-runes wisdom If leech-lore thou lovest; And wilt wot about wounds’ s... ... On the buds of trees Whose boughs look eastward ever. “Thought-runes shalt thou deal with If thou wilt be of all men Fairest-souled...

...orethought,—we will not believe that our Fathers believed in these. Odin’s Runes are a significant feature of him. Runes, and the miracles of “magic” ... ... miracles of “magic” he worked by them, make a great feature in tradition. Runes are the Scandinavian Alphabet; suppose Odin to have been the inventor... ...n brought Letters among his people, he might work magic enough! Writing by Runes has some air of being original among the Norsemen: not a Phoenician A... ... thenceforth in a new manner. What this Odin saw into, and taught with his runes and his rhymes, the whole T eutonic People laid to heart and carried ... ...rt of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised. Odin’s Runes were the first form of the work of a Hero; Books written words, are s... ...irst form of the work of a Hero; Books written words, are still miraculous Runes, the latest form! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the ... ...e the chosen possession of men. Do not Books still accomplish miracles, as Runes were fabled to do? They persuade men. Not the wretchedest circulating...

...r lane, Their sense, that aince was braw an’ plain, Tint a’thegether, Like runes upon a standin’ stane Amang the heather. “But think not you the brae ...

... Of high and low degree, With the herdsmen on the mountains And the fishers of the sea. And he came and went unweary, And read the books of yore, And ...

...en it is calm, as it often is, there appear certain strange, undecipherable marks – sea-runes, as we may name them – on the glassy surface of the bay.... ...d duty to support the dining- room roof, bore mysterious characters on its darker side, runes, according to the Doctor; nor did he fail, when he ran o... ...e-edified its walls after the sack of the town, and past the mysterious engraver of the runes, down to the long-headed, dirty-handed boor from whom he...

...mother “Hjordis” and the wise dwarf Regin, who taught him the knowledge of runes and of many languages. * At the suggestion of Regin, Sigurd asks for ... ... court. A man named “Vingi”, who was sent with the invitation, changes the runes of warning, which Gudrun had given him, so that they, too, read as an...

...n- less it should be a sportsman to shoot grouse or an antiquary to decipher runes, the presence of these small pedestrians struck the mind as though ...

...own fishes had been taken on the reef and found to be marked with menacing runes; a head- less lizard crawled among chiefs in council; the gods of Upo...

...hen, and the owl was out over the fern again. ‘He called back, reading the runes on the iron: “Few can see Further forth Than when the child Meets the...

...s own, he manifested to the last a measure of respect. As we sat un- der the awning in opposite corners of the cockpit, he braid- ing hairs from dead ...

... he told Kim the names and properties of many native drugs, as well as the runes proper to recite when you administer them. And in the evenings he wro...

...eir character from their earliest history to the present day. Often in the runes of The Kalevala reference is made to the “cleansing and healing vir ... ...e Kalevala ings are blue, and his shoes, crimson colored. In the following runes, Ukko here and there interposes. Thus, when the Sun and Moon were sto... ... a spirit of independence among his worshipers. Often we find him, in the runes, refusing to heed the call of his people for help, as when Ilmatar, t... ...e wilderness and attempted to slay the Finnish Taurus, as described in the runes that follow. The agricultural deities, however, receive but little a... ...ration to life of the reckless Lemminkainen, as described in the following runes. She busies herself in spinning veins, and in sewing up the wounded t... ...merciless and hideous pair. Three daughters of T uoni are mentioned in the runes, the first of whom, a tiny, black maiden, but great in wickedness, on... ...to reconcile their consciences to his de struction. Otso is called in the runes by many endearing titles as “The Honey Eater,” “Golden Light Foot,” “... ...lars just mentioned, nor earlier investigators, could fail to see that the runes they collected, gathered round two or three chief heroes, but more es... ... country, and with whose closely im pending death, numerous very precious runes would have been irrevocably lost. The happy result of his travels thr...

...ong night of misty moorlands: men may say not where the haunts of these Hell Runes 3 be. Such heaping of horrors the hater of men, lonely roamer, wro... ...on of Ecglaf, who sat at the feet of the Scyldings’ lord, unbound the battle runes. 1 — Beowulf’s quest, sturdy seafarer’s, sorely galled him; ever h...

...you of my adventure. I will tell it to you in verse, and you shall cut it in runes on a staff.” She did so, and he spoke the Hallmundarkvida, in which... ...ch on the next morning found the staff and all that was with it and read the runes. Grettir had then returned home to Sandhaugar. The Saga of Grettir ... ... had a small flat surface cut on its smooth side; then she took a knife, cut runes upon it, reddened them with her blood and muttered some spells over...

...d unoffended eyes, That record of All Soul whereon God writes In everlasting runes the truth of Him. IX The guerdon of new childhood is repose: — Onc...

...ich we have put behind us. There are the red maple and birchen leaves, old runes which are not yet deciphered; catkins, pine cones, vines, oak leaves,...