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................................................................................................................................................. 55 The Runes on Weland?s Sword ......................................................................................................................................................................... 72 A CENTURION OF THE THIRTIETH...

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...................................................................... 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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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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... 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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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... 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...

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...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...